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tjvananne / process GloVe pre-trained word vector.R
Created May 4, 2017 14:45
How to read and process a downloaded pre-trained GloVe word vector (turn it into a data.frame) in base R
#' A word vector is a giant matrix of words, and each word contains a numeric array that represents the semantic
#' meaning of that word. This is useful so we can discover relationships and analogies between words programmatically.
#' The classic example is "king" minus "man" plus "woman" is most similar to "queen"
# function definition --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# input .txt file, exports list of list of values and character vector of names (words)
proc_pretrained_vec <- function(p_vec) {