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John Rupert Firth: The Linguist Behind the Foundation of Modern Word Embeddings
British linguist J. R. Firth (1890–1960) shaped modern natural language processing with his famous maxim: 'You shall know a word by the company it keeps'. His work on distributional semantics provided the theoretical cornerstone for vector representations like Word2vec and GloVe.
From Video: Building an LLM from Scratch: Neural Networks, Tokenization, and Transformers
