Semantic Word Ladder: Embeddings and A* Search
I hadn’t written in a while and to get over my writer’s block, I decided to pick up a small weekend project and have some fun with it. I started with embeddings and tried to think of them as a space you could move through. Each word becomes a node and the goal is to get from a start word to a target word through small semantic steps. I embedded a dataset of common words and treated the whole thing as a graph traversal problem using A* search algorithm....