Bag of Words & TF-IDF: How NLP Turns Text into Numbers

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Two documents get similar vectors if they use many of the same words, not simply because they express the same idea. Document similarity: Two documents covering the same topic will tend to use many of the same words. Words like “the,” “a,” “is,” “and” appear in almost every document.

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