Restore original text from Keras’s imdb dataset

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Restore original text from Keras’s imdb dataset

I want to restore imdb’s original text from Keras’s imdb dataset.

First, when I load Keras’s imdb dataset, it returned sequence of word index.

>>> (X_train, y_train), (X_test, y_test) = imdb.load_data() >>> X_train[0] [1, 14, 22, 16, 43, 530, 973, 1622, 1385, 65, 458, 4468, 66, 3941, 4, 173, 36, 256, 5, 25, 100, 43, 838, 112, 50, 670, 22665, 9, 35, 480, 284, 5, 150, 4, 172, 112, 167, 21631, 336, 385, 39, 4, 172, 4536, 1111, 17, 546, 38, 13, 447, 4, 192, 50, 16, 6, 147, 2025, 19, 14, 22, 4, 1920, 4613, 469, 4, 22, 71, 87, 12, 16, 43, 530, 38, 76, 15, 13, 1247, 4, 22, 17, 515, 17, 12, 16, 626, 18, 19193, 5, 62, 386, 12, 8, 316, 8, 106, 5, 4, 2223, 5244, 16, 480, 66, 3785, 33, 4, 130, 12, 16, 38, 619, 5, 25, 124, 51, 36, 135, 48, 25, 1415, 33, 6, 22, 12, 215, 28, 77, 52, 5, 14, 407, 16, 82, 10311, 8, 4, 107, 117, 5952, 15, 256, 4, 31050, 7, 3766, 5, 723, 36, 71, 43, 530, 476, 26, 400, 317, 46, 7, 4, 12118, 1029, 13, 104, 88, 4, 381, 15, 297, 98, 32, 2071, 56, 26, 141, 6, 194, 7486, 18, 4, 226, 22, 21, 134, 476, 26, 480, 5, 144, 30, 5535, 18, 51, 36, 28, 224, 92, 25, 104, 4, 226, 65, 16, 38, 1334, 88, 12, 16, 283, 5, 16, 4472, 113, 103, 32, 15, 16, 5345, 19, 178, 32] 

I found imdb.get_word_index method(), it returns word index dictionary like {‘create’: 984, ‘make’: 94,…}. For converting, I create index word dictionary.

>>> word_index = imdb.get_word_index() >>> index_word = {v:k for k,v in word_index.items()} 

Then, I tried to restore original text like following.

>>> ' '.join(index_word.get(w) for w in X_train[5]) "the effort still been that usually makes for of finished sucking ended cbc's an because before if just though something know novel female i i slowly lot of above freshened with connect in of script their that out end his deceptively i i" 

I’m not good at English, but I know this sentence is something strange.

Why is this happened? How can I restore original text?

Answer 1

Your example is coming out as gibberish, it's much worse than just some missing stop words.

If you re-read the docs for the start_char, oov_char, and index_from parameters of the [keras.datasets.imdb.load_data](https://keras.io/datasets/#imdb-movie-reviews-sentiment-classification ) method they explain what is happening:

start_char: int. The start of a sequence will be marked with this character. Set to 1 because 0 is usually the padding character.

oov_char: int. words that were cut out because of the num_words or skip_top limit will be replaced with this character.

index_from: int. Index actual words with this index and higher.

That dictionary you inverted assumes the word indices start from 1.

But the indices returned my keras have <START> and <UNKNOWN> as indexes 1 and 2. (And it assumes you will use 0 for <PADDING>).

This works for me:

import keras NUM_WORDS=1000 # only use top 1000 words INDEX_FROM=3   # word index offset  train,test = keras.datasets.imdb.load_data(num_words=NUM_WORDS, index_from=INDEX_FROM) train_x,train_y = train test_x,test_y = test  word_to_id = keras.datasets.imdb.get_word_index() word_to_id = {k:(v+INDEX_FROM) for k,v in word_to_id.items()} word_to_id["<PAD>"] = 0 word_to_id["<START>"] = 1 word_to_id["<UNK>"] = 2 word_to_id["<UNUSED>"] = 3  id_to_word = {value:key for key,value in word_to_id.items()} print(' '.join(id_to_word[id] for id in train_x[0] )) 

The punctuation is missing, but that's all:

"<START> this film was just brilliant casting <UNK> <UNK> story  direction <UNK> really <UNK> the part they played and you could just  imagine being there robert <UNK> is an amazing actor ..."