Windows compatibility

[EtienneGagnon1]

Hello,

When running the learn_embeddings function I get the error message "UndefVarError: word2vec not defined". It seems like the Word2vec package is not compatible with windows. Do you have suggestions on how to use your package with windows?

[ollin18]

Hello Etienne,

We do have that problem with that dependency. I've been planning to write my own Julia version of the skip gram model but I don't really have a time frame for that. If it's worth something you could simulate the walks and try a different version of Word2Vec. You would still get the advantage of the faster walk simulation.
You can also check the original repo where I developed this where I have a branch for parallel walk simulation which would speed up even more those.
https://github.com/ollin18/Node2Vec.jl/tree/parallel

An alternative I haven't tested with Windows is using WSL. Should be very easy to test.

Thanks

[EtienneGagnon1]

Thank you Ollin. I ended up calling the Karateclub library from Python. Maybe I can look into writing a version of the skipgram in Julia myself, it doesn't seem too difficult