WordVectors 2023-09-06

In this release of the WWP walkthroughs on word vectors, Avery Blankenship (@blaak-18) has added some clarifying language to the Jupyter notebooks. The Python tutorial set now includes Python scripts generated from the notebooks. These scripts provide easy access to the code portions of the tutorials. They may be useful for folks who don’t want to use the notebooks, or who want to build on the code for their own projects. For the tutorials’ narrative, however, we recommend using the Jupyter notebooks.

We’ve also added GitHub URLs inside each of the Readmes. If you’ve downloaded a tutorial package but prefer to read nicely-formatted documentation over the Markdown files, these links should help!

WordVectors 2023-04-18

This release adds a Readme for the Python word2vec tutorials, and includes some light edits.

WordVectors 2023-03-27

In this release of the WWP word2vec walkthroughs, we’re proud to introduce a series of Jupyter notebooks written by Avery Blankenship (@blaak-18)! These notebooks provide a starter tutorial on Python, as well as an environment for learning to train word embedding models and to create visualizations with them. The Python ZIP file below includes a small dataset of recipes for getting started.

In the R version of the walkthroughs, we’ve lightly edited the Readme to include relative links to each walkthrough.

WordVectors 2022-05-05

Readable, HTML versions of the word2vec walkthroughs are now available at the Women Writers Vector Toolkit! This release contains minor edits.

The ZIP file below includes several sample models trained on:

• 1880s corpora, split by author’s gender
• AirBnB reviews
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South
• Women Writers Online

WordVectors 2022-03-17

This release of the word2vec walkthroughs contains minor edits and updates.

The ZIP file below includes several sample models trained on:

• 1880s corpora, split by author’s gender
• AirBnB reviews
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South
• Women Writers Online

WordVectors 2021-11-17

This release contains a new guide to loading and training word vector models.

The ZIP file below includes several sample models trained on:

• 1880s corpora, split by author’s gender
• AirBnB reviews
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South
• Women Writers Online

WordVectors 2021-07-02

This release of the word2vec walkthroughs includes new R Markdown guides to training, validating, and exploring models.

In addition, the ZIP file below provides several sample models trained on:

• 1880s corpora, split by author’s gender
• AirBnB reviews
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South
• Women Writers Online

WordVectors 2021-05-19

This version of the word2vec walkthroughs contains many tweaks and enhancements, as well as a new R Markdown file. This new walkthrough, authored by @lmerrettej, introduces fundamental concepts in the R language, and familiarizes one with the RStudio development environment.

WordVectors 2019-07-24

This version of the word2vec walkthroughs includes code for exporting query results.

WordVectors 2019-07-15

This initial release of the word vectors walkthroughs makes the full folder of code available for download.