This document discusses using word embeddings and the Word2Vec model for natural language processing tasks in TensorFlow. It explains that word embeddings are needed to understand relationships between words as text, unlike images, does not provide inherent relationships between symbols like pixels. Word2Vec is an efficient predictive model that learns word embeddings from raw text using either the Continuous Bag-of-Words or Skip-Gram architecture and negative sampling to discriminate real from imaginary words during training. The tutorial aims to teach how to perform NLP tasks in TensorFlow using Word2Vec to learn word embeddings from a text corpus.