README.md

metaphor-vae

Interpolating Metaphors with Variational Autoencoders

Dependencies

• Python 3.6
• Pytorch 0.4.1
• Fastai 0.7

Installation

1. Create a conda environment:

   conda env create -n metaphors python=3.6
   

2. Install dependencies

   pip install fastai==0.7.0 torchtext==0.2.3 opencv-python spacy
   sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y libsm6 libxext6
   

3. Install Spacy en model:

   python -m spacy download en
   

4. Install Pytorch 0.4.1 (default version of pytorch with fastai 0.7.0 is 0.3.0):

   pip install torch==0.4.1
   

Data

The data was originally scraped from http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Troubleshooting

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47113029/importerror-libsm-so-6-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-such-file-or-directo
• OpenNMT/OpenNMT-py#900 (comment)
• https://forums.fast.ai/t/fastai-v0-7-install-issues-thread/24652