Accessing fasttext vectors in spaCy

[sonynavdeep81]

I have converted the fasttext vectors into spacy format using init command. It has been done successfully as shown below;

Here it says that I have to set the path of vectors to E:\Spacy\output_dir in config.cfg file. Now there are two config.cfg files, one default file and the other one created in the E:\Spacy\output_dir . Which one to update? I have updated the default one and executed the following code;

In this code, I am trying to access vectors in it but it is giving the following error;

Where am I doing the mistake?

When I am using the following code I am able to see the vectors;

Can't I access the vectors without loading the model? What for is vectors inside the config.cfg then? Please explain.

[polm]

Don't paste screenshots of code, copy and paste text as text.

spacy.blank loads a blank model, it doesn't check any config anywhere. You need to load a model to get vectors.

When you create a config, you can specify the directory vectors in spaCy format are saved in to load, and that will be made available in your model.

[sonynavdeep81]

Thanks for the reply and the advise! I will surely take care of that in the future.
I am not able to understand the last sentence, can you please explain in a bit more detail. Do you mean that if rather than loading a blank model, we load another model such as 'en_core_web_md', and provide the path to vectors (which are in spacy format) to the parameter vectors under [initialize] in config.cfg, then the static vectors will be loaded in the model?

[adrianeboyd]

en_core_web_md is already a full pipeline with its own included vectors. If you replace the vectors, you would break all the statistical components like the tagger.

If you create a config with the path to a pipeline in [initialize.vectors] (python package name like en_core_web_md or path) and then run either spacy train or spacy assemble, the output will be a full pipeline (you can load it with spacy.load) that contains a complete copy of the vectors from the specified vectors pipeline.

[sonynavdeep81]

Thanks!