Text classification using TF-IDF
One-hot encoded vector is a good approach to perform classification. However, one of its weaknesses is that it does not consider the importance of different words based on different documents. To solve this issue, using TF-IDF can be helpful.
TF-IDF is a numerical statistic that is used to measure the importance of a word in a document within a document collection. It helps reflect the relevance of words in a document, considering not only their frequency within the document but also their rarity across the entire document collection. The TF-IDF value of a word increases proportionally to its frequency in a document but is offset by the frequency of the word in the entire document collection.
Here’s a detailed explanation of the mathematical equations involved in calculating TF-IDF:
- Term frequency (TF): The TF of a word, t, in a document, d, represents the number of times the word occurs in the document, normalized by the total...