Memorandum of fastText (editing)

A note on fastText

official

The official GitHub repository is below. See the README for detailed installation instructions. fastText : https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText

environment

The environment I tried this time is as follows.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS"

install python

Prepare python, numpy, and scipy in advance. Anaconda is convenient.

• Anaconda : https://www.continuum.io

$ wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3-4.4.0-Linux-x86_64.sh 

install c ++

You need c ++ to make fastText. If not, install it with the following command.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

Prepare fastText

Download and install from GitHub.

$ git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText.git
$ cd fastText
$ make

Download trained model

Download the Japanese trained model distributed in the repository.

$ wget https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/fasttext-vectors/wiki.ja.zip .

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