be- 5 Note that this interpretation has been disputed; e.g., it is argued in Levy and Goldberg (2014a) that (4.1) can be understood using only the classical connection between inner product and word similarity, using which the objective (4.1) is slightly improved to a different objective called 3COSMUL.
this "explanation" is still dogged by the issue of large termwise error pinpointed here, since inner product is only a rough approximation to word similarity.