Questions tagged [tf-idf]

“Term-frequency ⨉ Inverse Document Frequency”, or “tf-idf”, measures how important a word is to a document in a collection or corpus.

“Term-frequency ⨉ Inverse Document Frequency”, or “tf-idf”, in Natural Language Processing () and , measures how important a word is to a document in a collection or corpus.

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How to compute tf-idf from multiple text files in php?

I'm successfully computing tf-idf from an array. Now I want that tf-idf should be computed from multiple text files as I have multiple text files in my directory. Can anyone please modify this code for multiple text files so that first all the files…
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why SVM obtain different result using different feature?

I used SVM for classification. and also I apply TF, TFIDF and present-absent as a feature. but I got different result. now I want to know how this happen? How can I examine the reason of this result? I should mention that this difference is not too…
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Best way to match 2 text documents

I'm trying to make such a software which makes 2 text documents intelligently sort of like checking how much the text matches, not like DIFF I have searched a quite on Google, And I found 2 things which is Graph & TFIDF. But I'm confused between…
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recursively determine similarity in lucene

I have a collection of books in multiple languages. I need to link parts of each book to each other based on their similarity. I need to link books to similar books, chapters to similar chapters and subchapters to similar subchapters. Preferably,…
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How to choose the initial clusters for K-mean from Tf-IDF vectors

I'm working with text clustering. I want to select specific documents (as a vector) to be a centroID fo k-means. I have created the TF-IDF for my dataset by using Mahout, and I would like to choose the initial clusters from TFIDF vectors. Anyone…
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Is the idf for query same as idf for documents?

This is part of my code. idf=self.getInverseDocFre(word) ##this idf is from the collection qi=count*idf di=self.docTermCount[docid][word]*idf similiarity+=qi*di …
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Sorting a matrix containing Terms and IDF by decreasing value in R

I have downloaded 10 tweets (later to be enlarged to 1000), I have removed stop words and other usual things (tolower, removeNumbers etc.) I have created a DocumentTermMatrix and have calculated the IDF (not TF-IDF) weights for each term and stored…
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Matching an element from a set of abstracts to an element in set of titles

Suppose I have two sets, a = {"this is a title", ...} b = {"this is a short description of some title from a", ...} What is the best way to find the best match in set b for an element in set a, or vice versa. The approach I tried was to create a…
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Information retrieval, inverted index issue

Hi i'm trying to write a little program that indexes some documents from an xml collection. I use the tf-idf method. Now when my program reads the query it returns a list of tuples ('tf-idf','docid') for each word in each document. This is an…
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USING TFIDF FOR RELATIVE FREQUENCY, COSINE SIMILARITY

I'm trying to use TFIDF for relative frequency to calculate cosine distance. I've selected 10 words from one document say: File 1 and selected another 10 files from my folder, using the 10 words and their frequency to check which of the 10 files are…
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How to sort python csr_matix by data

I want to get keywords of a text by tfidf method with sklenrn I have got tfidf module, see code below: from sklearn.feature_extraction import text tfidf_vect = text.TfidfVectorizer() texts = get_text_list() tfidf =…
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Implementation of TFIDF weighting scheme

My goal is to compare the text txt with each item in corpus below using TFIDF weighting scheme. corpus=['the school boy is reading', 'who is reading a comic?', 'the little boy is reading'] txt='James the school boy is always busy reading' Here's my…
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Calculate tf-idf of strings

I have 2 documents doc1.txt and doc2.txt. The contents of these 2 documents are: #doc1.txt very good, very bad, you are great #doc2.txt very bad, good restaurent, nice place to visit I want to make my corpus separated with , so that my final…
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First column of csv file as document number in calculating Document-Term matrix in R

My data.csv file contains the following: id,name 143,The sky is blue. 21,The sun is bright. 23,The sun in the sky is bright. Now, I can read the whole file like this: > file_loc <- "test.csv" > x <- read.csv(file_loc, header = TRUE) > x <-…
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Different tf-idf values in R and hand calculation

I am playing around in R to find the tf-idf values. I have a set of documents like: D1 = "The sky is blue." D2 = "The sun is bright." D3 = "The sun in the sky is bright." I want to create a matrix like this: Docs blue bright sky …
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