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Co-occurrence matrix from nested list of words

I have a list of names like:

names = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']

and a list of documents, that in each documents some of these names are mentioned.

document =[['A', 'B'], ['C', 'B', 'K'],['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'Z']]

I would like to get an output as a matrix of co-occurrences like:

  A  B  C  D
A 0  2  1  1
B 2  0  2  1
C 1  2  0  1
D 1  1  1  0

There is a solution (Creating co-occurrence matrix) for this problem in R, but I couldn't do it in Python. I am thinking of doing it in Pandas, but yet no progress!

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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Another option is to use the constructor csr_matrix((data, (row_ind, col_ind)), [shape=(M, N)]) from scipy.sparse.csr_matrix where data, row_ind and col_ind satisfy the relationship a[row_ind[k], col_ind[k]] = data[k].

The trick is to generate row_ind and col_ind by iterating over the documents and creating a list of tuples (doc_id, word_id). data would simply be a vector of ones of the same length.

Multiplying the docs-words matrix by its transpose would give you the co-occurences matrix.

Additionally, this is efficient in terms of both run times and memory usage, so it should also handle big corpuses.

import numpy as np
import itertools
from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix


def create_co_occurences_matrix(allowed_words, documents):
    print(f"allowed_words:\n{allowed_words}")
    print(f"documents:\n{documents}")
    word_to_id = dict(zip(allowed_words, range(len(allowed_words))))
    documents_as_ids = [np.sort([word_to_id[w] for w in doc if w in word_to_id]).astype('uint32') for doc in documents]
    row_ind, col_ind = zip(*itertools.chain(*[[(i, w) for w in doc] for i, doc in enumerate(documents_as_ids)]))
    data = np.ones(len(row_ind), dtype='uint32')  # use unsigned int for better memory utilization
    max_word_id = max(itertools.chain(*documents_as_ids)) + 1
    docs_words_matrix = csr_matrix((data, (row_ind, col_ind)), shape=(len(documents_as_ids), max_word_id))  # efficient arithmetic operations with CSR * CSR
    words_cooc_matrix = docs_words_matrix.T * docs_words_matrix  # multiplying docs_words_matrix with its transpose matrix would generate the co-occurences matrix
    words_cooc_matrix.setdiag(0)
    print(f"words_cooc_matrix:\n{words_cooc_matrix.todense()}")
    return words_cooc_matrix, word_to_id 

Run example:

allowed_words = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']
documents = [['A', 'B'], ['C', 'B', 'K'],['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'Z']]
words_cooc_matrix, word_to_id = create_co_occurences_matrix(allowed_words, documents)

Output:

allowed_words:
['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']

documents:
[['A', 'B'], ['C', 'B', 'K'], ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'Z']]

words_cooc_matrix:
[[0 2 1 1]
 [2 0 2 1]
 [1 2 0 1]
 [1 1 1 0]]
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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from collections import OrderedDict

document = [['A', 'B'], ['C', 'B'], ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']]
names = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']

occurrences = OrderedDict((name, OrderedDict((name, 0) for name in names)) for name in names)

# Find the co-occurrences:
for l in document:
    for i in range(len(l)):
        for item in l[:i] + l[i + 1:]:
            occurrences[l[i]][item] += 1

# Print the matrix:
print(' ', ' '.join(occurrences.keys()))
for name, values in occurrences.items():
    print(name, ' '.join(str(i) for i in values.values()))

Output;

  A B C D
A 0 2 1 1 
B 2 0 2 1 
C 1 2 0 1 
D 1 1 1 0 
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Obviously this can be extended for your purposes, but it performs the general operation in mind:

import math

for a in 'ABCD':
    for b in 'ABCD':
        count = 0

        for x in document:
            if a != b:
                if a in x and b in x:
                    count += 1

            else:
                n = x.count(a)
                if n >= 2:
                    count += math.factorial(n)/math.factorial(n - 2)/2

        print '{} x {} = {}'.format(a, b, count)
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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