ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Embedding

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Embedding is a noun meaning The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.

Meaning

The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.

More Meanings

  1. (mathematics) A map which, in any of several technical senses, represents the containment of one structure inside another.
  2. present participle and gerund of embed
  3. (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.

Example Sentences

word embeddings
A few years ago, Dr. [Alexander] Huth noticed that particular pieces of these maps — so-called context embeddings, which capture the semantic features, or meanings, of phrases — could be used to predict how the brain lights up in response to language.
“A major reason we chose to study word embeddings is that they have been spectacularly successful in the last few years in helping computers make sense of language,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University and the paper’s senior author.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include integrated, enclosed, packaging, inlay, packing, consolidation.

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