Using word2vec to classify words in categories

Question

BACKGROUND

I have vectors with some sample data and each vector has a category name (Places,Colors,Names).

[\'john\',\'jay\',\'dan\'         


        

Answer 1

If you're looking for the simplest / fastest solution then I'd suggest you take the pre-trained word embeddings (Word2Vec or GloVe) and just build a simple query system on top of it. The vectors have been trained on a huge corpus and are likely to contain good enough approximation to your domain data.

Here's my solution below:

import numpy as np

# Category -> words
data = {
  'Names': ['john','jay','dan','nathan','bob'],
  'Colors': ['yellow', 'red','green'],
  'Places': ['tokyo','bejing','washington','mumbai'],
}
# Words -> category
categories = {word: key for key, words in data.items() for word in words}

# Load the whole embedding matrix
embeddings_index = {}
with open('glove.6B.100d.txt') as f:
  for line in f:
    values = line.split()
    word = values[0]
    embed = np.array(values[1:], dtype=np.float32)
    embeddings_index[word] = embed
print('Loaded %s word vectors.' % len(embeddings_index))
# Embeddings for available words
data_embeddings = {key: value for key, value in embeddings_index.items() if key in categories.keys()}

# Processing the query
def process(query):
  query_embed = embeddings_index[query]
  scores = {}
  for word, embed in data_embeddings.items():
    category = categories[word]
    dist = query_embed.dot(embed)
    dist /= len(data[category])
    scores[category] = scores.get(category, 0) + dist
  return scores

# Testing
print(process('pink'))
print(process('frank'))
print(process('moscow'))

In order to run it, you'll have to download and unpack the pre-trained GloVe data from here (careful, 800Mb!). Upon running, it should produce something like this:

{'Colors': 24.655489603678387, 'Names': 5.058711671829224, 'Places': 0.90213905274868011}
{'Colors': 6.8597321510314941, 'Names': 15.570847320556641, 'Places': 3.5302454829216003}
{'Colors': 8.2919375101725254, 'Names': 4.58830726146698, 'Places': 14.7840416431427}

... which looks pretty reasonable. And that's it! If you don't need such a big model, you can filter the words in glove according to their tf-idf score. Remember that the model size only depends on the data you have and words you might want to be able to query.