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Opposite words often appear in similar sentence structures and subject areas. A training objective focused on contextual patterns can therefore place their representations relatively close.
How do embedding models represent relationships between words?
Why might antonyms have similar embeddings?
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No. Words can share a topic, grammatical role, or context without being synonyms. Replacing one with another may change the meaning substantially.
Yes, when suitable training or adaptation captures that field’s terminology and usage. Performance still needs evaluation on representative examples, especially for ambiguous or uncommon terms.
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