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bag of words

bag of words noun: the collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.

Noun

bag of words (plural bags of words)

  1. The 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
    Synonyms:
    BOW

Synonyms of bag of words

Forms of bag of words

pluralbags of words

Words formed from bag of words

Questions about bag of words

What does bag of words mean?
Bag of words means the collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.
What part of speech is bag of words?
Bag of words is a noun.
What is the plural of bag of words?
The plural of bag of words is bags of words.

Words near bag of words in the dictionary

  1. bag of shells
  2. bag of tricks
  3. bag of waters
  4. bag of weasels
  5. bag of wind
  6. bag of words
  7. bag off
  8. bag out
  9. bag people
  10. bag phone
  11. bag phones

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