word2vec for Lucene

"word2vec for Lucene" extracts word vectors from Lucene index.

strength and weakness

strength

• You don't need to provide a text file besides Lucene index.
• You don't need to normalize text. Normalization has already been done in the index or Analyzer does it for you when processing.
• You can use a part of index rather than the whole of it by specifying a filter query.

weakness (known limitations)

• You need to provide a Lucene index as a text corpus.
• You need to set field to be processed. The field must be indexed and stored.
• The optimized index is preferable than unoptimiaed one because we use totalTermFreq() to get term count for each word.

HOW TO USE

In this section, you'll know how to use demo environment provided in this project.

prepare Apache Solr

Download Apache Solr 4.10.2 (recommended) and unzip the downloaded file in an appropriate directory. Go to example directory and launch Solr with solr.solr.home and solr.dir properties.

$ cd solr-4.10.2/example
$ java -Dsolr.solr.home=${word2vec-lucene}/solrhome -Dsolr.dir=${solr-inst-dir} -jar start.jar

for people who like text8

prepare text8.xml file

Execute ant to prepare sample input text8.xml file.

$ ant t8-solr

This takes several minutes.

index text8.xml into Solr

Index text8.xml file to Solr.

$ ./post.sh collection1 text8.xml

create vectors.txt file

Once you got Lucene index, you can now create vectors.txt file.

$ ./demo-word2vec.sh collection1

With -f option, you can specify arbitrary output vectors file.

$ ./demo-word2vec.sh collection1 -f vectors_my.txt

for people who has PDF file

If you have Lucene in Action book PDF file, post the file to Solr.

$ ./solrcell.sh LuceneInAction.pdf

for people who prefer Japanese text

prepare livedoor news corpus

Download livedoor news corpus from RONDHUIT site and unzip it in an appropriate directory.

$ cd ${word2vec-lucene}
$ mkdir work
$ cd work
$ wget http://www.rondhuit.com/download/livedoor-news-data.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf livedoor-news-data.tar.gz
$ cd ..

index livedoor news corpus into Solr

Index livedoor news corpus xml files to Solr.

$ ./post.sh ldcc work/*.xml

create vectors.txt file

Once you got Lucene index, you can now create vectors.txt file.

$ ./demo-word2vec.sh ldcc -a org.apache.lucene.analysis.ja.JapaneseAnalyzer

With -f option, you can specify arbitrary output vectors file.

$ ./demo-word2vec.sh ldcc -a org.apache.lucene.analysis.ja.JapaneseAnalyzer -f vectors_my.txt

compute distance among word vectors

Once you got word vectors file vectors.txt, you can find top 40 words that are closest words to the word you specified.

With -f option, you can specify arbitrary input vectors file.

$ ./demo-distance.sh [-f <vectors_file>]
cat
Word: cat
Position in vocabulary: 2601

                                              Word      Cosine distance
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                               rat          0.591972
                                              cats          0.587605
                                             hyena          0.583455
                                          squirrel          0.580696
                                              dogs          0.568277
                                               dog          0.556022

Or, you can compute vector operations e.g. vector('paris') - vector('france') + vector('italy') or vector('king') - vector('man') + vector('woman')

With -f option, you can specify arbitrary input vectors file.

$ ./demo-analogy.sh [-f <vectors_file>]
france paris italy
man king woman

Using text files rather than Lucene index

This tool supports not only Lucene index but also text files. See TextFileCreateVectors.java for details. The words in the text file must be separated by white space. This is normal for English and you need nothing for pretreatment. But for some languages e.g. Japanese, you need to "tokenize" the Japanese sentences into space-separated words before executing TextFileCreateVectors.java.