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removeInfrequentNgrams

Remove infrequently seen n-grams from bag-of-n-grams model

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Syntax

newBag = removeInfrequentNgrams(bag,count)
newBag = removeInfrequentNgrams(bag,count,'NgramLengths',lengths)
newBag = removeInfrequentNgrams(___,'IgnoreCase',true)

Description

newBag = removeInfrequentNgrams(bag,count) removes the n-grams that appear at most count times in total from the bag-of-n-grams model bag. The function, by default, is case sensitive.

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newBag = removeInfrequentNgrams(bag,count,'NgramLengths',lengths) only removes n-grams with lengths specified by lengths. The function, by default, is case sensitive.

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newBag = removeInfrequentNgrams(___,'IgnoreCase',true) removes the n-grams that appear at most count times ignoring case. If n-grams differ only by case, then the corresponding counts are merged.

Examples

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Open Live Script

Load the example data. The file sonnetsPreprocessed.txt contains preprocessed versions of Shakespeare's sonnets. The file contains one sonnet per line, with words separated by a space. Extract the text from sonnetsPreprocessed.txt, split the text into documents at newline characters, and then tokenize the documents.

filename = "sonnetsPreprocessed.txt";
str = extractFileText(filename);
textData = split(str,newline);
documents = tokenizedDocument(textData);

Create a bag-of-n-grams model. Specify to count bigrams (pairs of words) and trigrams (triples of words).

bag = bagOfNgrams(documents,'NgramLengths',[2 3])
bag = 
  bagOfNgrams with properties:

          Counts: [154x18022 double]
      Vocabulary: ["fairest"    "creatures"    "desire"    "increase"    "thereby"    "beautys"    "rose"    "might"    "never"    "die"    "riper"    "time"    "decease"    "tender"    "heir"    "bear"    "memory"    "thou"    ...    ] (1x3092 string)
          Ngrams: [18022x3 string]
    NgramLengths: [2 3]
       NumNgrams: 18022
    NumDocuments: 154

Remove n-grams of any length that appear two or fewer times in total.

bag = removeInfrequentNgrams(bag,2)
bag = 
  bagOfNgrams with properties:

          Counts: [154x103 double]
      Vocabulary: ["thine"    "thy"    "self"    "sweet"    "thou"    "time"    "why"    "dost"    "upon"    "eye"    "thee"    "ten"    "beauty"    "love"    "wilt"    "dear"    "truth"    "own"    "yet"    "hast"    "mens"    ...    ] (1x73 string)
          Ngrams: [103x3 string]
    NgramLengths: [2 3]
       NumNgrams: 103
    NumDocuments: 154

Remove bigrams that appear four or fewer times in total.

bag = removeInfrequentNgrams(bag,4,'NgramLengths',2)
bag = 
  bagOfNgrams with properties:

          Counts: [154x41 double]
      Vocabulary: ["thine"    "thy"    "sweet"    "thou"    "dost"    "upon"    "why"    "thee"    "ten"    "love"    "dear"    "hast"    "true"    "mine"    "beauty"    "fair"    "own"    "self"    "art"    "times"    "shouldst"    ...    ] (1x30 string)
          Ngrams: [41x3 string]
    NgramLengths: [2 3]
       NumNgrams: 41
    NumDocuments: 154

Input Arguments

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Input bag-of-n-grams model, specified as a bagOfNgrams object.

Count threshold, specified as a positive integer. The function removes the n-grams that appear count times in total or fewer.

N-gram lengths, specified as a positive integer or a vector of positive integers.

If you specify lengths, the function removes infrequent n-grams of the specified lengths only. If you do not specify lengths, then the function removes infrequent n-grams regardless of length.

Example: [1 2 3]

Output Arguments

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Output bag-of-n-grams model, returned as a bagOfNgrams object.

Version History

Introduced in R2018a

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