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TF Idf

The document explains the concepts of Term Frequency (TF) and Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) as components of the TF-IDF scoring system used to evaluate the importance of terms in documents. It provides a calculation example for the term 'machine' across three documents, resulting in TF-IDF scores of 0 for all documents due to the term's presence in every document. The key takeaway is that a term's importance is diminished if it appears frequently across all documents.

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TF Idf

The document explains the concepts of Term Frequency (TF) and Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) as components of the TF-IDF scoring system used to evaluate the importance of terms in documents. It provides a calculation example for the term 'machine' across three documents, resulting in TF-IDF scores of 0 for all documents due to the term's presence in every document. The key takeaway is that a term's importance is diminished if it appears frequently across all documents.

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TF-IDF

• Term Frequency (TF): This measures how often a term appears in a document. It is calculated as the ratio of
the number of times a term occurs in a document to the total number of terms in that document. The idea is
that a term is important to a document if it appears frequently.
Number of occurrences of term t in document d
TF(t, d) =
Total number of terms in document d
• Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): This measures the importance of a term across a collection of
documents. It is calculated as the logarithm of the total number of documents divided by the number of
documents containing the term. The idea is to reduce the importance of terms that appear frequently across all
documents.
Number of documents containing term t
IDF(t, D) = log
Total number of documents in the corpus ∣D∣
• TF-IDF: The TF-IDF score for a term in a document is calculated by multiplying its TF and IDF scores. This
results in a high score for terms that are important within a specific document but not common across all
documents in the corpus.
TF-IDF(t, d, D) = TF(t,d) × IDF(t,D)
TF-IDF
Question: calculation of TF-IDF. Consider a corpus with three documents:
Document 1: "Machine learning is fascinating."
Document 2: "Machine learning is subfield of artificial intelligence."
Document 3: "Natural language processing is component of machine learning."

calculate the TF-IDF for the term "machine" in each document.

Answer: Term Frequency (TF):


TF("machine", Document 1) = 1/4 = 0.25
TF("machine", Document 2) = 1/7 ≈ 0.14
TF("machine", Document 3) = 2/8 = 0.25
TF-IDF
Inverse Document Frequency (IDF):
IDF("machine", Corpus) = log(3 / 3) = 0 (since "machine" appears in all documents)

TF-IDF:
TF-IDF("machine", Document 1, Corpus) = 0.25 * 0 = 0
TF-IDF("machine", Document 2, Corpus) = 0.14 * 0 = 0
TF-IDF("machine", Document 3, Corpus) = 0.25 * 0 = 0

The TF-IDF scores for the term "machine" are all 0 because the IDF is 0 due to the term appearing in every
document in the corpus.

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