bag of words

noun

The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.

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Meanings

nounbag of words (plural bags of words)

plural bags of words

  1. computationalThe collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.

    You can then use the bag of words to train classifiers, a special kind of algorithm used to break words down into categories.

    2023, John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron, Python for Data Science For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 132

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Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.

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Translations

Portuguese conjunto de palavras
  • conjunto de palavrascollection of words
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