==== General ====
* Divisi2 is embedded in a larger project on knowledge representation (semantic networks and the like) in the MIT, so it is intended to be used in applications in AI and not in linguistics.
* It is a SVD (singular value decomposition) library for **Python**.
* Divisi requires numpy (numerical python, a standard library for scientifical computing with py) and [[http://pysparse.sourceforge.net/|pysparse]] (a further extension for matrix processing). From my own experience, installing numpy is not trivial.
* As far as I can see right now, it is necessary to develop or use another application to collect the context vectors, etc..
* Easy installation (around 5 minutes if you have numpy).
* [[http://csc.media.mit.edu/docs/_static/divisi_slides.pdf|Quick overview.]]
* [[http://csc.media.mit.edu/docs/divisi2/|Documentation]]
* **Note:** In a first run, Divisi2 didn't work.
==== Installation ====
* I presuppose that Python is already installed in your computer. Most distributions of linux include in their standard version Python. If you haven't install python yet, please check [[http://www.python.org/|here]].
* The installation process is by itself quite simple -you will need just two commands. However a number of libraries are necessary to run Divisi2 and their installation is not quite simple, at least that is what I remember from installing numpy. In my case, I had to install (and maybe build) several libraries, in particular, ATLAS.
* To install:
- First install **pip**sudo easy_install pip
- This command will also install pysparse (in case you don't have it): sudo pip install pysparse
- Now install **Divisi2**sudo pip install divisi2 csc-pysparse
* For a further tutorial using [[http://csc.media.mit.edu/docs/divisi2/intro.html|Divisi2]]
==== Technical Issues =====
* Divisi2 utilizes Pysparce by means of a classes called SparseMatrix- Pysparce is can be seen as an extension of Numpy. It supports three formats for saving sparse matrices:
- Linked-list format
- Compressed sparse row format
- Sparse Skyline format
==== Testing ====
--- //[[eapontep@uos.de|Eduardo Aponte]] 2010/11/16 10:38//