On the word2vec-toolkit mailing list Thomas Mensink has provided an answer in the form of a small C program that will convert a .bin file to text. This is a modification of the distance.c file. I replaced the original distance.c with Thomas's code below and rebuilt word2vec (make clean; make), and renamed the compiled distance to readbin. Then ./readbin vector.bin will create a text version of vector.bin.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <malloc.h>
const long long max_size = 2000; // max length of strings
const long long N = 40; // number of closest words that will be shown
const long long max_w = 50; // max length of vocabulary entries
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
FILE *f;
char file_name[max_size];
float len;
long long words, size, a, b;
char ch;
float *M;
char *vocab;
if (argc < 2) {
printf("Usage: ./distance <FILE>\nwhere FILE contains word projections in the BINARY FORMAT\n");
return 0;
}
strcpy(file_name, argv[1]);
f = fopen(file_name, "rb");
if (f == NULL) {
printf("Input file not found\n");
return -1;
}
fscanf(f, "%lld", &words);
fscanf(f, "%lld", &size);
vocab = (char *)malloc((long long)words * max_w * sizeof(char));
M = (float *)malloc((long long)words * (long long)size * sizeof(float));
if (M == NULL) {
printf("Cannot allocate memory: %lld MB %lld %lld\n", (long long)words * size * sizeof(float) / 1048576, words, size);
return -1;
}
for (b = 0; b < words; b++) {
fscanf(f, "%s%c", &vocab[b * max_w], &ch);
for (a = 0; a < size; a++) fread(&M[a + b * size], sizeof(float), 1, f);
len = 0;
for (a = 0; a < size; a++) len += M[a + b * size] * M[a + b * size];
len = sqrt(len);
for (a = 0; a < size; a++) M[a + b * size] /= len;
}
fclose(f);
//Code added by Thomas Mensink
//output the vectors of the binary format in text
printf("%lld %lld #File: %s\n",words,size,file_name);
for (a = 0; a < words; a++){
printf("%s ",&vocab[a * max_w]);
for (b = 0; b< size; b++){ printf("%f ",M[a*size + b]); }
printf("\b\b\n");
}
return 0;
}
I removed the "\b\b" from the printf.
By the way, the resulting text file still contained the text word and some unnecessary whitespace which I did not want for some numerical calculations. I removed the initial text column and the trailing blank from each line with bash commands.
cut --complement -d ' ' -f 1 GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.txt > GoogleNews-vectors-negative300_tuples-only.txt
sed 's/ $//' GoogleNews-vectors-negative300_tuples-only.txt
