Your first BOW

A bag-of-words is an approach to transform text to numeric form.

In this exercise, you will apply a BOW to the annak list before moving on to a larger dataset in the next exercise.

Your task will be to work with this list and apply a BOW using the CountVectorizer(). This transformation is your first step in being able to understand the sentiment of a text. Pay attention to words which might carry a strong sentiment.

Remember that the output of a CountVectorizer() is a sparse matrix, which stores only entries which are non-zero. To look at the actual content of this matrix, we convert it to a dense array using the .toarray() method.

Note that in this case you don't need to specify the max_features argument because the text is short.

Import the count vectorizer function from sklearn.feature_extraction.text.
Build and fit the vectorizer on the small dataset.
Create the BOW representation with name anna_bow by calling the transform() method.
Print the BOW result as a dense array.

Take Hint (-30 XP)

Exercise

Your first BOW

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