Comment by Jack000

6 years ago

fasttext and word2vec only encode contextual similarity, they're not meant to generate synonyms.

So, you agree with me then. You can't say "What do you call a sleepy cat? A /grumbea-gle/ (grumpy-beagle)!" It's a portmanteau, sure, but it is not really even close to the input. Using word2vec here is probably wrong, or should have different pruning for word variance. It's a flaw of the technique and choices of the author.