Generates a word rank-based probabilistic sampling table.

Generates a word rank-based probabilistic sampling table.

make_sampling_table(size, sampling_factor = 1e-05)

Arguments

size	Int, number of possible words to sample.
sampling_factor	The sampling factor in the word2vec formula.

Value

An array of length size where the ith entry is the probability that a word of rank i should be sampled.

Details

Used for generating the sampling_table argument for skipgrams(). sampling_table[[i]] is the probability of sampling the word i-th most common word in a dataset (more common words should be sampled less frequently, for balance).

The sampling probabilities are generated according to the sampling distribution used in word2vec:

p(word) = min(1, sqrt(word_frequency / sampling_factor) / (word_frequency / sampling_factor))

We assume that the word frequencies follow Zipf's law (s=1) to derive a numerical approximation of frequency(rank):

frequency(rank) ~ 1/(rank * (log(rank) + gamma) + 1/2 - 1/(12*rank))

where gamma is the Euler-Mascheroni constant.

Note

The word2vec formula is: p(word) = min(1, sqrt(word.frequency/sampling_factor) / (word.frequency/sampling_factor))

See also

Other text preprocessing: pad_sequences, skipgrams, text_hashing_trick, text_one_hot, text_to_word_sequence