Convert a collection of text documents to a matrix of token occurrences
It turns a collection of text documents into a scipy.sparse matrix holding token occurrence counts (or binary occurrence information), possibly normalized as token frequencies if norm='l1' or projected on the euclidean unit sphere if norm='l2'.
This text vectorizer implementation uses the hashing trick to find the token string name to feature integer index mapping.
This strategy has several advantages:
- it is very low memory scalable to large datasets as there is no need to store a vocabulary dictionary in memory
- it is fast to pickle and un-pickle as it holds no state besides the constructor parameters
- it can be used in a streaming (partial fit) or parallel pipeline as there is no state computed during fit.
There are also a couple of cons (vs using a CountVectorizer with an in-memory vocabulary):
- there is no way to compute the inverse transform (from feature indices to string feature names) which can be a problem when trying to introspect which features are most important to a model.
- there can be collisions: distinct tokens can be mapped to the same feature index. However in practice this is rarely an issue if n_features is large enough (e.g. 2 ** 18 for text classification problems).
- no IDF weighting as this would render the transformer stateful.
The hash function employed is the signed 32-bit version of Murmurhash3.
Read more in the :ref:`User Guide <text_feature_extraction>`.
Parameters ----------
input : string 'filename', 'file', 'content'
, default='content' If 'filename', the sequence passed as an argument to fit is expected to be a list of filenames that need reading to fetch the raw content to analyze.
If 'file', the sequence items must have a 'read' method (file-like object) that is called to fetch the bytes in memory.
Otherwise the input is expected to be a sequence of items that can be of type string or byte.
encoding : string, default='utf-8' If bytes or files are given to analyze, this encoding is used to decode.
decode_error : 'strict', 'ignore', 'replace'
, default='strict' Instruction on what to do if a byte sequence is given to analyze that contains characters not of the given `encoding`. By default, it is 'strict', meaning that a UnicodeDecodeError will be raised. Other values are 'ignore' and 'replace'.
strip_accents : 'ascii', 'unicode'
, default=None Remove accents and perform other character normalization during the preprocessing step. 'ascii' is a fast method that only works on characters that have an direct ASCII mapping. 'unicode' is a slightly slower method that works on any characters. None (default) does nothing.
Both 'ascii' and 'unicode' use NFKD normalization from :func:`unicodedata.normalize`.
lowercase : bool, default=True Convert all characters to lowercase before tokenizing.
preprocessor : callable, default=None Override the preprocessing (string transformation) stage while preserving the tokenizing and n-grams generation steps. Only applies if ``analyzer is not callable``.
tokenizer : callable, default=None Override the string tokenization step while preserving the preprocessing and n-grams generation steps. Only applies if ``analyzer == 'word'``.
stop_words : string 'english'
, list, default=None If 'english', a built-in stop word list for English is used. There are several known issues with 'english' and you should consider an alternative (see :ref:`stop_words`).
If a list, that list is assumed to contain stop words, all of which will be removed from the resulting tokens. Only applies if ``analyzer == 'word'``.
token_pattern : string Regular expression denoting what constitutes a 'token', only used if ``analyzer == 'word'``. The default regexp selects tokens of 2 or more alphanumeric characters (punctuation is completely ignored and always treated as a token separator).
ngram_range : tuple (min_n, max_n), default=(1, 1) The lower and upper boundary of the range of n-values for different n-grams to be extracted. All values of n such that min_n <= n <= max_n will be used. For example an ``ngram_range`` of ``(1, 1)`` means only unigrams, ``(1, 2)`` means unigrams and bigrams, and ``(2, 2)`` means only bigrams. Only applies if ``analyzer is not callable``.
analyzer : string, 'word', 'char', 'char_wb'
or callable, default='word' Whether the feature should be made of word or character n-grams. Option 'char_wb' creates character n-grams only from text inside word boundaries; n-grams at the edges of words are padded with space.
If a callable is passed it is used to extract the sequence of features out of the raw, unprocessed input.
.. versionchanged:: 0.21
Since v0.21, if ``input`` is ``filename`` or ``file``, the data is first read from the file and then passed to the given callable analyzer.
n_features : int, default=(2 ** 20) The number of features (columns) in the output matrices. Small numbers of features are likely to cause hash collisions, but large numbers will cause larger coefficient dimensions in linear learners.
binary : bool, default=False. If True, all non zero counts are set to 1. This is useful for discrete probabilistic models that model binary events rather than integer counts.
norm : 'l1', 'l2'
, default='l2' Norm used to normalize term vectors. None for no normalization.
alternate_sign : bool, default=True When True, an alternating sign is added to the features as to approximately conserve the inner product in the hashed space even for small n_features. This approach is similar to sparse random projection.
.. versionadded:: 0.19
dtype : type, default=np.float64 Type of the matrix returned by fit_transform() or transform().
Examples -------- >>> from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import HashingVectorizer >>> corpus =
... 'This is the first document.',
... 'This document is the second document.',
... 'And this is the third one.',
... 'Is this the first document?',
...
>>> vectorizer = HashingVectorizer(n_features=2**4) >>> X = vectorizer.fit_transform(corpus) >>> print(X.shape) (4, 16)
See Also -------- CountVectorizer, TfidfVectorizer