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 load_glove_model(File):     print("Loading Glove Model")     glove_model = {}     with open(File,'r') as f:         for line in f:             split_line = line.split()             word = split_line[0]             embedding = np.array(split_line[1:], dtype=np.float64)             glove_model[word] = embedding     print(f"{len(glove_model)} words loaded!")     return glove_model 

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

print(gloveModel['hello'])