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Questions tagged [tfidf]

tf–idf (term frequency–inverse document frequency), is a numerical statistic using in nlp that is intended to reflect how important a word is to a document in a collection or corpus. It is often used as a weighting factor in searches of information retrieval, text mining, and user modeling. tf–idf increases proportionally the number of times a word appears in the document.

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What is the difference between a hashing vectorizer and a tfidf vectorizer

I'm converting a corpus of text documents into word vectors for each document. I've tried this using a TfidfVectorizer and a HashingVectorizer I understand that a HashingVectorizer does not take into consideration the IDF scores like a…
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Word2Vec embeddings with TF-IDF

When you train the word2vec model (using for instance, gensim) you supply a list of words/sentences. But there does not seem to be a way to specify weights for the words calculated for instance using TF-IDF. Is the usual practice to multiply the…
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Using TF-IDF with other features in scikit-learn

What is the best/correct way to combine text analysis with other features? For example, I have a dataset with some text but also other features/categories. scikit-learn's TF-IDF vectorizer transforms text data into sparse matrices. I can use these…
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Should I rescale tfidf features?

I have a dataset which contains both text and numeric features. I have encoded the text ones using the TfidfVectorizer from sklearn. I would now like to apply logistic regression to the resulting dataframe. My issue is that the numeric features…
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TF-IDF Features vs Embedding Layer

Have you guys tried to compare the performance of TF-IDF features* with a shallow neural network classifier vs a deep neural network models like an RNN that has an embedding layer with word embedding as weights next to the input layer? I tried this…
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Weighted sum of word vectors for document similarity

I have trained a word2vec model on a corpus of documents. I then compute the term frequency (the same Tf in TfIDF) of each word in each document, multiply each words Tf by its corresponding word vector (this is the weighted part), and sum each of…
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What are the exact differences between Word Embedding and Word Vectorization?

I am learning NLP. I have tried to figure out the exact difference between Word Embedding and Word Vectorization. However, seems like some articles use these words interchangeably. But I think there must be some sort of differences. In…
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Word2Vec and Tf-idf how to combine them

I'm currently working in text mining ptoject I'd like to know once I'm on vectorisation. With method is better. Is it Word2Vec or Tf-Idf ? Here I see we can combine them why that? Does it improve quality of data? What about GloVe? Thanks
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TS-SS and Cosine similarity among text documents using TF-IDF in Python

A common way of calculating the cosine similarity between text based documents is to calculate tf-idf and then calculating the linear kernel of the tf-idf matrix. TF-IDF matrix is calculated using TfidfVectorizer(). from…
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Online news classification

I am performing an online news classification. The idea is to recognize group of news of the same topic. My algorithm has these steps: 1) I go through a group of feeds from news sites and I recognize news links. 2) For each new link, I extract the…
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Are stopwords helpful when using tf-idf features for document classification?

I have documents of pure natural language text. Those documents are rather short; e.g. 20 - 200 words. I want to classify them. A typical representation is a bag of words (BoW). The drawback of BoW features is that some features might always be…
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TFIDF for very short sentences

I'm trying to build a regression model, in which one of the features contains text data. I was thinking in using scikit-learn's sklearn.feature_extraction.text.TfidfVectorizer. The issue however, is that the actual strings contain very few words.…
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How to apply TFIDF in structured dataset in Python?

I know that TFIDF is an NLP method for feature extraction. and I know that there are libraries that calculate TFIDF directly from the text. This is not what I want though In my case, my text dataset has been converted into Bag of words The original…
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Text vectorizer that capture feature offset in the text?

I'm using sklearn Tfifdfvectorizer to extract feature from text towards text classification. I believe the information I need tends to be in the beginning of the document, so I would like to somehow capture the offset of each feature per document…
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Predicting probability for each tag given already chosen tags

I have a set of tags (~10'000, will be extended over time) presented to a user. After he has selected 3 or more tags, I want to predict for each remaining tag what the chances are that the user will select this tag as well. I strictly need the…
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