Adding and subtracting words/concepts
Our brain understands the semantic relationships between words. For example, if you heard the riddle “What is the female version of a king?”, you know the answer is “Queen.” We are thinking “as male is to a king, so a female is to a queen.” We can even write a simple anthemic expression “king – male + female = queen.”
A fantastic use case of word vectors is that words can be added or subtracted arithmetically. The addition of two words means the combination of two concepts. It will return a new vector that represents the combination. If you subtract a word/concept from another word/concept, it means you want more of the previous concept and less of the second concept.
Example 1
Let’s apply this concept to our car world. A minivan can hold more people than a small sedan. What types of vehicles are similar to a minivan but not a sedan? Maybe a bus or a truck, which can...
