How do you perform Bag ofWords(BoW) in Python without using CountVectorizer ?

Answer 1

Jaz ,

may be you should read this first before starting any coding try.
https://www.journaldev.com/46591/bag-of-words-model-in-JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK
https://vitalflux.com/text-classification-bag-of-words-model-python-sklearn/
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2021/08/a-friendly-guide-to-nlp-bag-of-words-with-python-example/

Answer 2

You can use collections.Counter().
https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter

Answer 3

Why wouldn't you want to use CountVectorizer? Wouldn't that just end up with less functionality? Just asking.

Answer 4

Bob_Li because we were asked by our professor to find an alternative for CountVectorizer in our assignment.

Answer 5

kung-fu training for programmers 😁
you have to replace CountVectorizer with something else.

maybe this?

Count Vectorizer vs TFIDF Vectorizer | Natural Language Processing
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/count-vectorizers-vs-tfidf-natural-language-processing-sheel-saket

https://neptune.ai/blog/vectorization-techniques-in-nlp-guide