[phonebucket]

If true, this is interesting from an academic perspective: word meanings can be derived from a space of 60 dimensions. But I’m not still not convinced of the value with respect to language learning.

Learning how language is spoken from the fundamental 60 words sounds like trying to learn mathematics from its fundamental axioms. It seems like you might just get caught in a long list of definitions where you might be faster off trying to internalise some higher level useful concepts first.

[scarejunba]

It pushes some things out of the language and into the environment. If humanity went extinct and we had only this dictionary it is unlikely that word meanings would be interpreted to be the same as they are today.

But it's intended as a learning tool and it'll do fine for that.

[trox]

> If true, this is interesting from an academic perspective: word meanings can be derived from a space of 60 dimensions. But I’m not still not convinced of the value with respect to language learning.

More like 60 x N , since each of those words can appear arbitrary many times.

[dbmueller]

Monoid with 60 generators. But is it free?

[tom_mellior]

> a space of 60 dimensions

I don't think that's true. How would a 60-dimensional vector capture all the syntactic relationships between the words in a complex sentence?

[phonebucket]

Yeah, I was sloppy and wrong with my wording. Thanks for pointing it out.

I meant a sequence of one-hot encoded vectors of length 60 could make a good model of English.