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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 SVD (singular value decomposition) library for Python.
  • It requires numpy (numerical python, a standard library for scientifically computing with py) and 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 to collect the context vectors, etc..
  • Easy installation (around 5 minutes if you have numpy).

Installation

  • 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:
    1. First install pip
      sudo easy_install pip
    2. Now install Divisi2
      pip install divisi2 csc-pysparse

      This command will also install pysparse (in case you don't have it).