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I like it a lot, but it’s also frustrating. Perhaps it’s being hugged to death right now but the lookups are very slow, so when I disagree with the results it’s
by neilk 3y ago
I like it a lot, but it’s also frustrating. Perhaps it’s being hugged to death right now but the lookups are very slow, so when I disagree with the results it’s a bit painful. If the results were quicker it would not be so bad, I could try different things.
I was a bit miffed that “currency” was not considered to be related to “mark”. Similarly I thought I’d found the perfect word between “ski” and “trust”, “mogul”, but once again your program disagreed.
Also, please help the player understand the basis of the word relations. I was surprised that the shortest path between “investor” and “mark” was a non-dictionary word: “zuckerberg”. Presumably you are not using WordNet but some corpus of embeddings. If you say where he corpus comes from I can tailor my guesses. Conversely though, the shortest path feature is good because it teaches me what works. Maybe a top 5 would be even better.
You’re onto something though, keep at it!
- sparsely 3y agoI felt like "market" should have got better than 6% related score - investors participate in stock markets, and they often mark-to-market.
- obituary_latte 3y agoAgreed--I think it's overloaded at the moment. Not clear how it's supposed to work since the responses are so delayed. Looks fun, though!
- tomthe 3y agoI agree. This would be a great usecase for the fastText.js library. It can calculate similarities of words based on embeddings in the browser - no need to wait for a slow php script.
- CrazyStat 3y agoExactly my feelings. The relatedness calculation needs to be an order of magnitude faster to make iterating on an idea fun. After seeing the Zuckerberg path I tried Cuban, which is not related to Mark or investor despite Mark Cuban being far more famous as an investor than Mark Zuckerberg.
- SamBam 3y agoI saw "mark" and immediately though "scam" (which I figured would be easy to get to from "investor," but it told me that "scam" and "mark" share only 2% similarity. I can't even go from "investor" to "money" (16%). I'm not sure how "Zuckerberg" is closer to "investor" than "money" is.
- johtso 3y agoI thought Deutsche Mark..
- kimbernator 3y agoI had the exact same first guess. Easy, I figured - that's a perfect connection between them. It just seems like the logic dictating how "close" two words are is opaque and incomplete.
- albrewer 3y agoI thought investor -> currency -> mark would be a slam dunk but apparently "mark" here is not related to the German Mark.