Quick Start

In this tutorial we will show you how to install WEFE and then how to run a basic query.

Download and setup

There are two different ways to install WEFE:

  • To install the package with pip, run in a console:

    pip install wefe

  • To install the package with conda, run in a console:

    conda install -c pbadilla wefe

Run your first Query

Warning

If you are not familiar with the concepts of query, target and attribute set, please visit the the framework section on the library’s about page. These concepts will be widely used in the following sections.

In the following code we will show how to implement the example query presented in WEFE’s home page: A gender Query using WEAT metrics on the google’s word2vec Word Embedding model.

The following graphic shows the flow of the query execution:

Gender query with WEAT Flow

The programming of the previous flow can be separated into three steps:

  • Load the Word Embedding model.

  • Create the Query.

  • Run the Query using the WEAT metric over the Word Embedding Model.

These stages will be implemented next:

1. Load the Word Embedding pretrained model from gensim and then, create a :code:`` instance with it. This object took a gensim’s KeyedVectors object and a model name as parameters. As we said previously, for this example, we will use word2vec-google-news-300 model, but in order to speed up the execution time, the embedding model could be changed to glove-twitter-25'.

>>> # import the modules
>>> from wefe.query import Query
>>> from wefe.word_embedding_model import WordEmbeddingModel
>>> from wefe.metrics.WEAT import WEAT
>>> import gensim.downloader as api
>>>
>>> # load word2vec word2vec-google-news-300
>>> # it can be changed to 'word2vec-google-news-300' to speed use word2vec.
>>> twitter_25 = api.load('glove-twitter-25')
>>> model = WordEmbeddingModel(twitter_25, 'glove-twitter dim=25')

2. Create the Query with a loaded, fetched or custom target and attribute word sets. In this case, we will manually set both target words and attribute words.

>>> # create the word sets
>>> target_sets = [['she', 'woman', 'girl'], ['he', 'man', 'boy']]
>>> target_sets_names = ['Female Terms', 'Male Terms']
>>>
>>> attribute_sets = [['math', 'physics', 'chemistry'], ['poetry','dance','literature']]
>>> attribute_sets_names = ['Science', 'Arts']
>>>
>>> # create the query
>>> query = Query(target_sets, attribute_sets, target_sets_names,
>>>               attribute_sets_names)

3. Instantiate the metric to be used and then, execute run_query with the parameters created in the past steps. In this case we will use WEAT.

>>> # instance a WEAT metric
>>> weat = WEAT()
>>> result = weat.run_query(query, model)
>>> print(result)
{'query_name': 'Male Terms and Female Terms wrt Arts and Science',
 'result': -0.010003209}

We close the basic tutorial on the use of the WEFE package. For more advanced examples, visit user the User Guide section.