Load Pretrained glove vectors in python

Question

I have downloaded pretrained glove vector file from the internet. It is a .txt file. I am unable to load and access it. It is easy to load and access a word vector binary file using gensim but I don't know how to do it when it is a text file format.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

glove model files are in a word - vector format. You can open the textfile to verify this. Here is a small snippet of code you can use to load a pretrained glove file:

import numpy as np

def loadGloveModel(File):
    print("Loading Glove Model")
    f = open(File,'r')
    gloveModel = {}
    for line in f:
        splitLines = line.split()
        word = splitLines[0]
        wordEmbedding = np.array([float(value) for value in splitLines[1:]])
        gloveModel[word] = wordEmbedding
    print(len(gloveModel)," words loaded!")
    return gloveModel

You can then access the word vectors by simply using the gloveModel variable.

print gloveModel['hello']