Humor in Word Embeddings: Cockamamie Gobbledegook for Nincompoops · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1902.02783/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTHumor in Word Embeddings: Cockamamie Gobbledegook for Nincompoops — mentioned by wizzwizz4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937834urn:hackerpapers:mention:1902.02783:46937834Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:49:56 GMT<p>They&#x27;ve got that information scattered around a few pages. The Help page says they use (a modified version of) Datamuse for lookup, with Wikipedia, Wiktionary and WordNet providing dictionary definitions. The Datamuse API (https://datamuse.com/api/) uses a variety of GOFAI databases, plus word2vec: it&#x27;s all pre-2017 tech. OneLook additionally uses https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02783 for one of its filters (added 2022): more details can be found on the Datamuse blog: https://www.datamuse.com/blog/. https://web.archive.org/web/20160507022201/http://www.oneloo... confirms the &quot;longer queries&quot;…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1902.02783/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL