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Semantle is a very cool concept but the similarity scoring is kind of whack sometimes. It feels like it needs to use a wider dataset? Or perhaps word2vec is not
by dwaltrip 4y ago
Semantle is a very cool concept but the similarity scoring is kind of whack sometimes. It feels like it needs to use a wider dataset? Or perhaps word2vec is not quite good enough for this.
I had an idea for a minor improvement where if you guess one word, behind the scenes it would check that word, the plural version, the past tense version, etc. And then show you the highest score from all of those. I find it very frustrating when one word has a certain similarity score but another version of the same word (pluralized, past-tense, etc) has a very different score, whether higher or lower. Some small tweaks like this might make the game much more enjoyable.
- dr_orpheus 4y agoYeah, the plural and variations on words are always a bit strange. It also throws me off when something that is the direct opposite is "close" because it is associated. Like you guess "dusk" and its really close so you try "twilight", "sunset", "night", etc. but they are all further away and the word is actually "dawn".