What is: context2vec?

context2vec is an unsupervised model for learning generic context embedding of wide sentential contexts, using a bidirectional LSTM. A large plain text corpora is trained on to learn a neural model that embeds entire sentential contexts and target words in the same low-dimensional space, which is optimized to reflect inter-dependencies between targets and their entire sentential context as a whole.

In contrast to word2vec that use context modeling mostly internally and considers the target word embeddings as their main output, the focus of context2vec is the context representation. context2vec achieves its objective by assigning similar embeddings to sentential contexts and their associated target words.