bag of words

English

Noun

bag of words (plural bags of words)

1. (computational linguistics) The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.

   Synonym: BOW

   • 2023, John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron, Python for Data Science For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 132:

     You can then use the bag of words to train classifiers, a special kind of algorithm used to break words down into categories.

Derived terms

• continuous bag of words

Translations

collection of words

• Portuguese: conjunto de palavras