Meaning of word cloud | Babel Free

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A graphic shape composed of words, typically in a variety of sizes and fonts, with the size of each term often reflecting factors such as its frequency of use in a set of documents or survey responses; such displays are sometimes treated as linguistic data visualizations, sometimes used as part of a quiz or game, and sometimes merely decorative.

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“Suppose⟳ you train⟳ two neural networks on English and French. Each gleans the structure⟳ of its respective language, developing an internal representation known as a latent space. Essentially, it is a word cloud: a map of all the associations that words have⟳ in that language, built by placing similar words near one another and unrelated words farther apart. The cloud has a distinctive shape⟳. In fact, it is the same shape⟳ for both languages because, for their all their differences, they ultimately refer⟳ to the same world. All you need⟳ to do is rotate the English and French word clouds until they align. […] “Without having a dictionary, by looking at the constellation of all the words embedded in the latent spaces for each language, you only have⟳ to find⟳ the right rotation to align all the dots,” Kanai says.”

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