word2vec has been shown to be completely equal to a much older method so it's not as mysterious or new as one at first usually believes. Source (great paper):

word2vec has been shown to be completely equal to a much older method so it's not as mysterious or new as one at first usually believes. Source (great paper): http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~nlp/wp-content/uploads/Neural-Word-Embeddings-as-Implicit-Matrix-Factorization-NIPS-2014.pdf http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~nlp/wp-content/uploads/Neural-Word-Em...