Bigram vector representations using word2vec

Question

I want to construct word embeddings for documents using the word2vec tool. I know how to find a vector embedding corresponding to a single word (unigram). Now, I want to find a vector for a bigram. Is it possible to construct a bigram word embedding using word2vec? If yes, how?

Answer 1

The following snippet will get you the vector representation of a bigram. Note that the bigram you want to convert to a vector needs to have an underscore instead of a space between the words, e.g. bigram2vec(unigrams, "this report") is wrong, it should be bigram2vec(unigrams, "this_report"). For more details on generating the unigrams, please see the gensim.models.word2vec.Word2Vec class here.

from gensim.models import word2vec

def bigram2vec(unigrams, bigram_to_search):
    bigrams = Phrases(unigrams)
    model = word2vec.Word2Vec(bigrams[unigrams])
    if bigram_to_search in model.vocab.keys():
        return model[bigram_to_search]
    else:
        return None