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Reputation: 768

Counting bigrams (pair of two words) in a file using Python

I want to count the number of occurrences of all bigrams (pair of adjacent words) in a file using python. Here, I am dealing with very large files, so I am looking for an efficient way. I tried using count method with regex "\w+\s\w+" on file contents, but it did not prove to be efficient.

e.g. Let's say I want to count the number of bigrams from a file a.txt, which has following content:

"the quick person did not realize his speed and the quick person bumped "

For above file, the bigram set and their count will be :

(the,quick) = 2
(quick,person) = 2
(person,did) = 1
(did, not) = 1
(not, realize) = 1
(realize,his) = 1
(his,speed) = 1
(speed,and) = 1
(and,the) = 1
(person, bumped) = 1

I have come across an example of Counter objects in Python, which is used to count unigrams (single words). It also uses regex approach.

The example goes like this:

>>> # Find the ten most common words in Hamlet
>>> import re
>>> from collections import Counter
>>> words = re.findall('\w+', open('a.txt').read())
>>> print Counter(words)

The output of above code is :

[('the', 2), ('quick', 2), ('person', 2), ('did', 1), ('not', 1),
 ('realize', 1),  ('his', 1), ('speed', 1), ('bumped', 1)]

I was wondering if it is possible to use the Counter object to get count of bigrams. Any approach other than Counter object or regex will also be appreciated.

Upvotes: 30

Views: 46600

Answers (6)

Xavier Guihot
Xavier Guihot

Reputation: 61774

Starting in Python 3.10, the new pairwise function provides a way to slide through pairs of consecutive elements, such that your use-case simply becomes:

from itertools import pairwise
import re
from collections import Counter

# text = "the quick person did not realize his speed and the quick person bumped "
Counter(pairwise(re.findall('\w+', text)))
# Counter({('the', 'quick'): 2, ('quick', 'person'): 2, ('person', 'did'): 1, ('did', 'not'): 1, ('not', 'realize'): 1, ('realize', 'his'): 1, ('his', 'speed'): 1, ('speed', 'and'): 1, ('and', 'the'): 1, ('person', 'bumped'): 1})

Details for intermediate results:

re.findall('\w+', text)
# ['the', 'quick', 'person', 'did', 'not', 'realize', 'his', ...]
pairwise(re.findall('\w+', text))
# [('the', 'quick'), ('quick', 'person'), ('person', 'did'), ...]

Upvotes: 5

Franck Dernoncourt
Franck Dernoncourt

Reputation: 83457

One can use CountVectorizer from scikit-learn (pip install sklearn) to generate the bigrams (or more generally, any ngram).

Example (tested with Python 3.6.7 and scikit-learn 0.24.2).

import sklearn.feature_extraction.text

ngram_size = 2
train_set = ['the quick person did not realize his speed and the quick person bumped']

vectorizer = sklearn.feature_extraction.text.CountVectorizer(ngram_range=(ngram_size,ngram_size))
vectorizer.fit(train_set) # build ngram dictionary
ngram = vectorizer.transform(train_set) # get ngram
print('ngram: {0}\n'.format(ngram))
print('ngram.shape: {0}'.format(ngram.shape))
print('vectorizer.vocabulary_: {0}'.format(vectorizer.vocabulary_))

Output:

>>> print('ngram: {0}\n'.format(ngram)) # Shows the bi-gram count
ngram:   (0, 0) 1
  (0, 1)        1
  (0, 2)        1
  (0, 3)        1
  (0, 4)        1
  (0, 5)        1
  (0, 6)        2
  (0, 7)        1
  (0, 8)        1
  (0, 9)        2

>>> print('ngram.shape: {0}'.format(ngram.shape))
ngram.shape: (1, 10)
>>> print('vectorizer.vocabulary_: {0}'.format(vectorizer.vocabulary_))
vectorizer.vocabulary_: {'the quick': 9, 'quick person': 6, 'person did': 5, 'did not': 1, 
'not realize': 3, 'realize his': 7, 'his speed': 2, 'speed and': 8, 'and the': 0, 
'person bumped': 4}

Upvotes: 0

Kristada673
Kristada673

Reputation: 3744

You can simply use Counter for any n_gram like so:

from collections import Counter
from nltk.util import ngrams 

text = "the quick person did not realize his speed and the quick person bumped "
n_gram = 2
Counter(ngrams(text.split(), n_gram))
>>>
Counter({('and', 'the'): 1,
         ('did', 'not'): 1,
         ('his', 'speed'): 1,
         ('not', 'realize'): 1,
         ('person', 'bumped'): 1,
         ('person', 'did'): 1,
         ('quick', 'person'): 2,
         ('realize', 'his'): 1,
         ('speed', 'and'): 1,
         ('the', 'quick'): 2})

For 3-grams, just change the n_gram to 3:

n_gram = 3
Counter(ngrams(text.split(), n_gram))
>>>
Counter({('and', 'the', 'quick'): 1,
         ('did', 'not', 'realize'): 1,
         ('his', 'speed', 'and'): 1,
         ('not', 'realize', 'his'): 1,
         ('person', 'did', 'not'): 1,
         ('quick', 'person', 'bumped'): 1,
         ('quick', 'person', 'did'): 1,
         ('realize', 'his', 'speed'): 1,
         ('speed', 'and', 'the'): 1,
         ('the', 'quick', 'person'): 2})

Upvotes: 5

hurrial
hurrial

Reputation: 514

It has been long time since this question was asked and successfully responded. I benefit from the responses to create my own solution. I would like to share it:

    import regex
    bigrams_tst = regex.findall(r"\b\w+\s\w+", open(myfile).read(), overlapped=True)

This will provide all bigrams that do not interrupted by a punctuation.

Upvotes: 1

Abhinav Sarkar
Abhinav Sarkar

Reputation: 23812

Some itertools magic:

>>> import re
>>> from itertools import islice, izip
>>> words = re.findall("\w+", 
   "the quick person did not realize his speed and the quick person bumped")
>>> print Counter(izip(words, islice(words, 1, None)))

Output:

Counter({('the', 'quick'): 2, ('quick', 'person'): 2, ('person', 'did'): 1, 
  ('did', 'not'): 1, ('not', 'realize'): 1, ('and', 'the'): 1, 
  ('speed', 'and'): 1, ('person', 'bumped'): 1, ('his', 'speed'): 1, 
  ('realize', 'his'): 1})

Bonus

Get the frequency of any n-gram:

from itertools import tee, islice

def ngrams(lst, n):
  tlst = lst
  while True:
    a, b = tee(tlst)
    l = tuple(islice(a, n))
    if len(l) == n:
      yield l
      next(b)
      tlst = b
    else:
      break

>>> Counter(ngrams(words, 3))

Output:

Counter({('the', 'quick', 'person'): 2, ('and', 'the', 'quick'): 1, 
  ('realize', 'his', 'speed'): 1, ('his', 'speed', 'and'): 1, 
  ('person', 'did', 'not'): 1, ('quick', 'person', 'did'): 1, 
  ('quick', 'person', 'bumped'): 1, ('did', 'not', 'realize'): 1, 
  ('speed', 'and', 'the'): 1, ('not', 'realize', 'his'): 1})

This works with lazy iterables and generators too. So you can write a generator which reads a file line by line, generating words, and pass it to ngarms to consume lazily without reading the whole file in memory.

Upvotes: 52

st0le
st0le

Reputation: 33575

How about zip()?

import re
from collections import Counter
words = re.findall('\w+', open('a.txt').read())
print(Counter(zip(words,words[1:])))

Upvotes: 14

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