Merge branch 'release-0.8.7'

hsingjun0 · Sep 18, 2013 · 578a174 · 578a174
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
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 Changes
 =======
 
+0.8.7
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+* initial version of word2vec, a neural network deep learning algo
+* make distributed gensim compatible with the new Pyro
+* allow merging dictionaries (by Florent Chandelier)
+* new design for the gensim website!
+* speed up handling of corner cases when returning top-n most similar
+* make Random Projections compatible with new scipy (andrewjOc360, PR #110)
+* allow "light" (faster) word lemmatization (by Karsten Jeschkies)
+* save/load directly from bzip2 files (by Luis Pedro Coelho, PR #101)
+* Blei corpus now tries harder to find its vocabulary file (by Luis Pedro Coelho, PR #100)
+* sparse vector elements can now be a list (was: only a 2-tuple)
+* simple_preprocess now optionally de-accents letters (ř/š/ú etc.)
+* better serialization of numpy corpora
+* print_topics() returns the topics, in addition to printing/logging
+* fixes for more robust Windows multiprocessing
+* lots of small fixes, data checks and documentation updates
+
 0.8.6
 
 * added HashDictionary (by Homer Strong)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ gensim -- Python Framework for Topic Modelling
 ==============================================
 
 
-
 Gensim is a Python library for *topic modelling*, *document indexing* and *similarity retrieval* with large corpora.
 Target audience is the *natural language processing* (NLP) and *information retrieval* (IR) community.
 
@@ -33,6 +32,8 @@ Installation
 This software depends on `NumPy and Scipy <http://www.scipy.org/Download>`_, two Python packages for scientific computing.
 You must have them installed prior to installing `gensim`.
 
+It is also recommended you install a fast BLAS library prior to installing NumPy. This is optional, but using an optimized BLAS such as `ATLAS <http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/>`_ or `OpenBLAS <http://xianyi.github.io/OpenBLAS/>`_ is known to improve performance by as much as an order of magnitude.
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 The simple way to install `gensim` is::
 
     sudo easy_install gensim
@@ -60,4 +61,4 @@ It is also included in the source distribution package.
 
 Gensim is open source software, and has been released under the
 `GNU LGPL license <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>`_.
-Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Radim Rehurek
+Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Radim Rehurek
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