TypeError: ufunc 'add' did not contain a loop with signature matching types

Question

I am creating bag of words representation of the sentence. Then taking the words that exist in the sentence to compare to the file \"vectors.txt\", in order to get their emb

Answer 1

You have a numpy array of strings, not floats. This is what is meant by dtype(' -- a little endian encoded unicode string with up to 9 characters.

try:

return sum(np.asarray(listOfEmb, dtype=float)) / float(len(listOfEmb))

However, you don't need numpy here at all. You can really just do:

return sum(float(embedding) for embedding in listOfEmb) / len(listOfEmb)

Or if you're really set on using numpy.

return np.asarray(listOfEmb, dtype=float).mean()