> What's "king" if you subtract [male] without simultaneously adding [female]? Why does the model even consider that a possibility? I'd expect a gender-neutral

> What's "king" if you subtract [male] without simultaneously adding [female]? Why does the model even consider that a possibility? I'd expect a gender-neutral term for a ruler, because "king" can be thought of being the combination of a "royalty" component and a "male" component, rather than just having a "gender attribute". And indeed, if you try `king_NOUN` - `man_NOUN` with word2vec trained on English Wikipedia [1], you get these nouns: - monarch NOUN 0.49 - ruler NOUN 0.47 - kingdom NOUN 0.46 - queen NOUN 0.44 - vassal NOUN 0.43 [1]: http://vectors.nlpl.eu/explore/embeddings/en/calculator/ http://vectors.nlpl.eu/explore/embeddings/en/calculator/