How to calculate the sentence similarity using word2vec model of gensim with python

Question

According to the Gensim Word2Vec, I can use the word2vec model in gensim package to calculate the similarity between 2 words.

e.g.

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Answer 1

If you are using word2vec, you need to calculate the average vector for all words in every sentence/document and use cosine similarity between vectors:

import numpy as np
from scipy import spatial

index2word_set = set(model.wv.index2word)

def avg_feature_vector(sentence, model, num_features, index2word_set):
    words = sentence.split()
    feature_vec = np.zeros((num_features, ), dtype='float32')
    n_words = 0
    for word in words:
        if word in index2word_set:
            n_words += 1
            feature_vec = np.add(feature_vec, model[word])
    if (n_words > 0):
        feature_vec = np.divide(feature_vec, n_words)
    return feature_vec

Calculate similarity:

s1_afv = avg_feature_vector('this is a sentence', model=model, num_features=300, index2word_set=index2word_set)
s2_afv = avg_feature_vector('this is also sentence', model=model, num_features=300, index2word_set=index2word_set)
sim = 1 - spatial.distance.cosine(s1_afv, s2_afv)
print(sim)

> 0.915479828613