Using `gensim` `word2vec` model in order to calculate similarities between two words. Training the model with a 250mb Wikipedia text gave a good result - about 0.7-0.8 similarity score for a related pair of words.

The problem is when I am using the `Phraser` model to add up phrases the similarity score drops to nearly zero for the same exact words.

**Results with the phrase model:**

```
speed - velocity - 0.0203503432178
high - low - -0.0435703782446
tall - high - -0.0076987978333
nice - good - 0.0368784716958
computer - computational - 0.00487748035808

```

That probably means I am not using the Phraser model correctly.

**My Code:**

```
    data_set_location = **
    sentences = SentenceIterator(data_set_location)

    # Train phrase locator model
    self.phraser = Phraser(Phrases(sentences))

    # Renewing the iterator because its empty
    sentences = SentenceIterator(data_set_location)

    # Train word to vector model or load it from disk
    self.model = Word2Vec(self.phraser[sentences], size=256, min_count=10, workers=10)

class SentenceIterator(object):
    def __init__(self, dirname):
        self.dirname = dirname

    def __iter__(self):
        for fname in os.listdir(self.dirname):
            for line in open(os.path.join(self.dirname, fname), 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore'):
                yield line.lower().split()

```

Trying the pharser model alone looks like it worked fine:

`>>>vectorizer.phraser['new', 'york', 'city', 'the', 'san', 'francisco']
['new_york', 'city', 'the', 'san_francisco']`

What can cause such behavior?

**Trying to figure out the solution:**

according to gojomo answer, I've tried to create a `PhraserIterator`:

```
import os

class PhraseIterator(object):
def __init__(self, dirname, phraser):
    self.dirname = dirname
    self.phraser = phraser

def __iter__(self):
    for fname in os.listdir(self.dirname):
        for line in open(os.path.join(self.dirname, fname), 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore'):
            yield self.phraser[line.lower()]

```

using this iterator I've tried to train my `Word2vec` model.

```
phrase_iterator = PhraseIterator(text_dir, self.phraser)
self.model = Word2Vec(phrase_iterator, size=256, min_count=10, workers=10

```

Word2vec training log:

```
    Using TensorFlow backend.
2017-06-30 19:19:05,388 : INFO : collecting all words and their counts
2017-06-30 19:19:05,456 : INFO : PROGRESS: at sentence #0, processed 0 words and 0 word types
2017-06-30 19:20:30,787 : INFO : collected 6227763 word types from a corpus of 28508701 words (unigram + bigrams) and 84 sentences
2017-06-30 19:20:30,793 : INFO : using 6227763 counts as vocab in Phrases<0 vocab, min_count=5, threshold=10.0, max_vocab_size=40000000>
2017-06-30 19:20:30,793 : INFO : source_vocab length 6227763
2017-06-30 19:21:46,573 : INFO : Phraser added 50000 phrasegrams
2017-06-30 19:22:22,015 : INFO : Phraser built with 70065 70065 phrasegrams
2017-06-30 19:22:23,089 : INFO : saving Phraser object under **/Models/word2vec/phrases_model, separately None
2017-06-30 19:22:23,441 : INFO : saved **/Models/word2vec/phrases_model
2017-06-30 19:22:23,442 : INFO : collecting all words and their counts
2017-06-30 19:22:29,347 : INFO : PROGRESS: at sentence #0, processed 0 words, keeping 0 word types
2017-06-30 19:33:06,667 : INFO : collected 143 word types from a corpus of 163438509 raw words and 84 sentences
2017-06-30 19:33:06,677 : INFO : Loading a fresh vocabulary
2017-06-30 19:33:06,678 : INFO : min_count=10 retains 95 unique words (66% of original 143, drops 48)
2017-06-30 19:33:06,679 : INFO : min_count=10 leaves 163438412 word corpus (99% of original 163438509, drops 97)
2017-06-30 19:33:06,683 : INFO : deleting the raw counts dictionary of 143 items
2017-06-30 19:33:06,683 : INFO : sample=0.001 downsamples 27 most-common words
2017-06-30 19:33:06,683 : INFO : downsampling leaves estimated 30341972 word corpus (18.6% of prior 163438412)
2017-06-30 19:33:06,684 : INFO : estimated required memory for 95 words and 256 dimensions: 242060 bytes
2017-06-30 19:33:06,685 : INFO : resetting layer weights
2017-06-30 19:33:06,724 : INFO : training model with 10 workers on 95 vocabulary and 256 features, using sg=0 hs=0 sample=0.001 negative=5 window=5
2017-06-30 19:33:14,974 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 0.00% examples, 0 words/s, in_qsize 0, out_qsize 0
2017-06-30 19:33:23,229 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 0.24% examples, 607 words/s, in_qsize 0, out_qsize 0
2017-06-30 19:33:31,445 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 0.48% examples, 810 words/s, 
...
2017-06-30 20:19:00,864 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 98.57% examples, 1436 words/s, in_qsize 0, out_qsize 1
2017-06-30 20:19:06,193 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 99.05% examples, 1437 words/s, in_qsize 0, out_qsize 0
2017-06-30 20:19:11,886 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 99.29% examples, 1437 words/s, in_qsize 0, out_qsize 0
2017-06-30 20:19:17,648 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 99.52% examples, 1438 words/s, in_qsize 0, out_qsize 0
2017-06-30 20:19:22,870 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 9 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,908 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 8 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,947 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 7 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,947 : INFO : PROGRESS: at 99.76% examples, 1439 words/s, in_qsize 0, out_qsize 8
2017-06-30 20:19:22,948 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 6 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,948 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 5 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,948 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 4 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,948 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 3 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,948 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 2 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,948 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 1 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,949 : INFO : worker thread finished; awaiting finish of 0 more threads
2017-06-30 20:19:22,949 : INFO : training on 817192545 raw words (4004752 effective words) took 2776.2s, 1443 effective words/s
2017-06-30 20:19:22,950 : INFO : saving Word2Vec object under **/Models/word2vec/word2vec_model, separately None
2017-06-30 20:19:22,951 : INFO : not storing attribute syn0norm
2017-06-30 20:19:22,951 : INFO : not storing attribute cum_table
2017-06-30 20:19:22,958 : INFO : saved **/Models/word2vec/word2vec_model

```

After this training - any of two similarity calculation produce zero:

```
speed - velocity - 0
high - low - 0

```

So it seems that the iterator is not working well so I've checked it using gojomo trick:

```
print(sum(1 for _ in s))
1

print(sum(1 for _ in s))
1

```

And its working. 

What may be the problem?