Building a word vector using the skip-gram and CBOW models

In the previous recipe, we built a word vector. In this recipe, we'll build skip-gram and CBOW models using the gensim library.

Getting ready

The method that we have adopted to build a word vector in this recipe is called a continuous bag of words (CBOW) model. The reason it is called as CBOW is explained as follows:

Let's use this sentence as an example: I enjoy playing TT.

Here's how the CBOW model handles this sentence:

1. Fix a window of certain size—let's say 1.
   • By specifying the window size, we are specifying the number of words that will be considered to the right as well as to the left of the given word.
2. Given the window size, the...