FastText - Cannot load model.bin due to C++ extension failed to allocate the memory

Question

I'm trying to use the FastText Python API https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fasttext Although, from what I've read, this API can't load the newer .bin model files at https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/blob/master/pretrained-vectors.md as suggested in https://github.com/salestock/fastText.py/issues/115

I've tried everything that is suggested at that issue, and furthermore https://github.com/Kyubyong/wordvectors doesn't have the .bin for English, otherwise the problem would be solved. Does anyone know of a work-around for this?

Answer 1

Try the following steps to solve the issue. Its worked with me for Python 3.5 while loading a language identification model.

git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText.git
cd fastText
pip install .

Answer 2

You can't use the package fasttext installed by pip. You use install fastText (capital T) from fasttext repo.