• Infomap NLP Software: Not in development any more. The authors recommend to use SemanticVectors instead!!!
  • Uses Latent Semantic Analysis
  • The implementation is in C.
  • Documentation: http://infomap-nlp.sourceforge.net/doc/
  • Infomap is intended to build `language models' and to perform information retrieval tasks on the such models
  • Simple input format
  • You might need gdbm libraries. I had troubles installing this libraries in my laptop. In the present moment it is not working.
  • The documentation includes installation instructions, algorithm description and implementation guide.

— Eduardo Aponte 2010/10/31 12:28

• Before installing Infomap you would have to install gdbm libraries in your computer. This could be quite challenging. In the following I document the installation process I followed.

1. As a first step, you should download the last version of gdbm.
2. Untar the .gz file and go into the created directory.
3. Try:

   ./configure

   This command should try to configure the program to your system specifications. It is highly likely that this process fails. The most likely reason is that a system library called libtool is not version compatible. To check your version of this program (in ubuntu):

   apt-cache policy libtool

   . I presuppose you have libtool installed in your computer. You probably have a newer version of libtool as the one presuppose by the gdbm package. The solution I found was to run:

   autoconf -f -oconfigure

4. The last overwrote all the libtool-related files in the directory. Now you can run

   make

   safely. If you obtain the following error -which actually is highly unlikely

   checking build system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized

   you will need to deceive the program. Add before any command:

   linux32

5. You might also have problems with the ANSI c headers. To solve this problem

   sudo apt-get install libc6-dev

The first step in order to build a model is to choose a directory where the models will be created. This is done by setting an environment variable

INFOMAP_WORKING_DIR=/home/jrandom/infomap_models
export INFOMAP_WORKING_DIR

Afterwards run build the model. Informap accepts two formats: a single file where documents are divided by xml markers or as set of files, where every file contains exactly one document. I decided to use this second option. As input, there should be a file specifying the name of file containing a document.

infomap-build -m /usr/local/share/corpora/manyNames.txt many_01