Both architectures are "continuous" meaning they use a continuous distributed representations of the context.

References

Heikki Hyyro. “Explaining and Extending the Bit-parallel Approximate StringMatching Algorithm of Myers”. In: (Oct. 2002).

Tomas Mikolov, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, and Jeffrey Dean. "Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space." 2013. arXiv:1301.3781

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