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pythoncosine-similarity

how to use cosine metric to calculate similarity between dictionaries?


I have a long dictionary list:

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    states: 1
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    austria: 1
    mississippi: 1
    france: 1
    proper: 1
    exceptionally: 1
    turkey: 1
    england: 1
    areas: 1
    combined: 1
    scotland: 1
    italy: 1
    spain: 1
    wales: 1
    almost: 1
    region: 1
    wide: 1
    drainage-basin: 1
    portugal: 1
    ireland: 1
    valley: 1
ways 1
    contrary: 1
    river: 1
    remarkable: 1
    commonplace: 1
discharges 1
    water: 1
    st: 1
degrees 1
    spread: 1
    country: 1
    states: 1
    longitude: 1
    twenty-eight: 1
    drainage-basin: 1
    vast: 1
    forty-five: 1
    water: 1
    seaboard: 1
    pacific: 1
    draws: 1
    delaware: 1
    territories: 1
    atlantic: 1
    supply: 1
    slope--a: 1
    river: 1
    idaho: 1
wide 1
    area: 1
    germany: 1
    austria: 1
    mississippi: 1
    france: 1
    proper: 1
    exceptionally: 1
    turkey: 1
    england: 1
    areas: 1
    combined: 1
    scotland: 1
    italy: 1
    spain: 1
    wales: 1
    almost: 1
    fertile: 1
    region: 1
    drainage-basin: 1
    portugal: 1
    ireland: 1
    valley: 1
proper 1
    area: 1
    germany: 1
    austria: 1
    mississippi: 1
    france: 1
    england: 1
    turkey: 1
    exceptionally: 1
    areas: 1
    combined: 1
    scotland: 1
    italy: 1
    spain: 1
    wales: 1
    almost: 1
    fertile: 1
    region: 1
    wide: 1
    drainage-basin: 1
    portugal: 1
    ireland: 1
    valley: 1
keels 1
    mississippi: 1
    steamboats: 1
    navigable: 1
    water: 1
    fifty-four: 1
    hundreds: 1
    subordinate: 1
    carries: 1
    gulf: 1
    flats: 1
    rivers: 1
    receives: 1
portugal 1
    area: 1
    germany: 1
    austria: 1
    mississippi: 1
    france: 1
    proper: 1
    exceptionally: 1
    turkey: 1
    england: 1
    areas: 1
    combined: 1
    scotland: 1
    italy: 1
    spain: 1
    wales: 1
    almost: 1
    fertile: 1
    region: 1
    wide: 1
    drainage-basin: 1
    ireland: 1
    valley: 1
worth 1
    mississippi: 1
    reading: 1
uses 1
    ground: 1
    journey: 1
    seems: 1
    part: 1
    cover: 1
    crow: 1
    crookedest: 1
    six: 1
    safe: 1
    fly: 1
    seventy-five: 1
    river: 1
seventy-five 1
    ground: 1
    journey: 1
    seems: 1
    part: 1
    cover: 1
    crow: 1
    crookedest: 1
    six: 1
    safe: 1
    uses: 1
    river: 1
    fly: 1
valley 1
    area: 1
    germany: 1
    austria: 1
    mississippi: 1
    france: 1
    proper: 1
    exceptionally: 1
    turkey: 1
    england: 1
    areas: 1
    combined: 1
    scotland: 1
    italy: 1
    spain: 1
    wales: 1
    almost: 1
    fertile: 1
    region: 1
    wide: 1
    drainage-basin: 1
    portugal: 1
    ireland: 1
missouri 1
    main: 1
    longest: 1
    river: 1
    branch: 1
    world--four: 1
    considering: 1
wales 1
    area: 1
    germany: 1
    austria: 1
    mississippi: 1
    france: 1
    proper: 1
    exceptionally: 1
    turkey: 1
    england: 1
    areas: 1
    combined: 1
    scotland: 1
    italy: 1
    spain: 1
    almost: 1
    fertile: 1
    region: 1
    wide: 1
    drainage-basin: 1
    portugal: 1
    ireland: 1
    valley: 1

And I want the to calculate similarity between dictionaries using cosine metric method: enter image description here

where p and q are the key of dictionary I guess. And I also want to add a function that when you input word, it will find the dictionary and return the similarity of other dictionaries in descending order. The desired output of similarity is:

Enter conceptword (or blank line to end): river 
river
    water   0.489
    mississippi 0.052
    spain   0.033
    cairo   0.000
Synonym for river is water

Anyone can help or provide solution or tell how to extract the shared words' value for calculation? Thanks.


Solution

  • I'm not entirely sure about your problem setup, but I imagine this could get you started. Suppose your collection of dictionaries is such:

    import math
    
    dict_list = {
        "water": {
            "ground": 1,
            "journey": 1,
            "longitude": 1,
            "main": 1,
            "contrary": 1,
            "cover": 1,
            "delaware": 1,
            "remarkable": 1
        },
        "mississippi": {
            "main": 1,
            "contrary": 1,
            "cover": 1,
            "delaware": 1,
            "remarkable": 1,
            "steamboats": 1,
            "germany": 1
        }
    }
    

    If you want to apply the cosine rule to them, you need to setup vectors showing the occurrence of each word present in both dictionaries (i.e., if it shows up in one and not the other it needs to be zero in the other):

    def setup_vec(dict1, dict2):
        dict1_missing = list(set(dict2.keys() - set(dict1.keys())))
        dict2_missing = list(set(dict1.keys() - set(dict2.keys())))
        for i in dict1_missing:
            dict1[i] = 0
        for i in dict2_missing:
            dict2[i] = 0
        vec1 = []
        vec2 = []
        for i in dict1.keys():
            vec1.append(dict1[i])
            vec2.append(dict2[i])
        return([vec1, vec2])
    

    Note that the order of the vector elements is important. If you run this with "water" and "mississippi" you get:

    [[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]]
    

    After that, you just need to apply the rule:

    def dot_prod(p, q):
        return sum([p[x]*q[x] for x in range(0, len(p))])
    
    def norm(p):
        return math.sqrt(dot_prod(p, p))
    
    def cosine_metric(p, q):
        return dot_prod(p, q)/(norm(p) * norm(q))
    

    And the function which computes them for a given dictionary against all others:

    def find_dict(word):
        if word in dict_list.keys():
            for other_dicts in dict_list.keys():
                if other_dicts != word:
                    vecs = setup_vec(dict_list[word], dict_list[other_dicts])
                    print(other_dicts + " " + str(cosine_metric(vecs[0], vecs[1])))
    

    The results here are:

    find_dict('water')
    0.6681531047810609
    

    The remaining task is to order the output, which shouldn't be hard to do.