Python Natural Language Processing

Understanding BOW using a practical example

In this section, we will look at the practical implementation of BOW using scikit-learn. You can find the code at this GitHub link:

https://github.com/jalajthanaki/NLPython/blob/master/ch5/bagofwordsdemo/BOWdemo.py.

See the code snippet in Figure 5.48:

Figure 5.48: BOW scikit-learn implementation

The first row of the output belongs to the first document with the word, words, and the second row belongs to the document with the word, wprds. You can see the output in Figure 5.49:

Figure 5.49: BOW vector ...