TF-IDF

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Etymology

Abbreviation of “term frequency over inverse document frequency”.

Noun

TF-IDF (uncountable)

  1. (information retrieval) A mathematical approximation to the importance of a particular word in a given piece of text.
    The relevance of a document to a given search query can be guessed using the TF-IDF of each word they have in common.
    • 2019, Hobson Lane, Cole Howard, Hannes Max Hapke, Natural Language Processing In Action , Shelter Island: Manning, →ISBN:
      And this distribution of word frequencies will ensure that your TF-IDF scores are more uniformly distributed.

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