crucyble

A Cython Wrapped GloVe (Global Vectors for Word Representation)

crucible, noun.

Pronounciation: \ ˈkrü-sə-bəl \

1. a vessel of a very refractory material used for melting...
2. a severe test
3. a vessel of a very refractory (see refractory entry 1 sense 3) material (such as porcelain) used for melting and calcining a substance that requires a high degree of heat

Synonyms: gauntlet, ...

source: merriam-webster

Overview

This library aims to provide the GloVe algorithm in a nearly-unaltered format relative to its original distribution by stanfordnlp.

The bulk of the alterations consist of removing the main() methods from the glove applications, and converting them to accept filenames instead of stdin/stdout. (See pull requests 1, 2, and 3)

These altered C sources are then wrapped with Cython to provide "native extensions" in the Python runtime.

Development

Local Testing

Prerequisites: gcc and cython installed.

To test this library locally:

1. clone the repo
2. from crucyble/ run python setup.py build_ext -i
3. try: PYTHONPATH=. python test/test_glove.py
4. examine the outputs!

You can change the corpus variable in test_glove.py to point to any corpus you have locally.

Contributing

...coming soon

Performance

Todo... :shrug:

License Info

Derivative implementation of the GloVe library from Stanford redistributed in accordance with Apache License and redistributed under MIT License