{
  "id": 11219657,
  "title": "Teaching a Computer Word Meaning Without a Dictionary",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/teaching-a-computer-word-meaning-without-a-dictionary",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-01T15:16:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ira_deb/teaching-a-computer-word-meaning-without-a-dictionary-2ogo"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When I started learning Natural Language Processing (NLP), one question bugged me: how does a computer understand words? The honest answer is that it doesn't. Computers only understand numbers. So before a model can work with language, we have to turn words into numbers, and the way we do it makes a huge difference. That is what word embeddings are about. In this post I'll explain what they are,…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}