Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)
I've been playing with embeddings and wanted to try out what results the embedding layer will produce based on just word-by-word input and addition / subtraction, beyond what many videos / papers mention (like the obvious king-man+woman=queen). So I built something that doesn't just give the first answer, but ranks the matches based on distance / cosine symmetry. I polished it a bit so that others can try it out, too. For now, I only have nouns (and some proper nouns) in the dataset, and pick the most common interpretation among the homographs. Also, it's case sensitive.
Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?) launched on May 14, 2025 with 176 votes, #200 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Semantic Calculator is a tool that performs mathematical operations on word embeddings, allowing users to add and subtract words to explore semantic relationships. For example, inputting "king-man+woman" generates ranked results based on cosine similarity distance. The tool currently supports nouns and common proper nouns, is case-sensitive, and returns multiple matches ranked by relevance rather than a single answer. It's designed for anyone curious about how word embeddings capture meaning and linguistic patterns.
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From the sources
Semantic calculator for words. Compute and explore values of expressions like king - man + woman = queen.
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