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Explain TF-IDF Usage

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You're working on a basic NLP pipeline where you need to turn raw text into numeric features for a downstream model. A common option is TF-IDF, especially when you want a simple and interpretable representation.

Question

What is TF-IDF and when would you use it?

What This Tests

  • Understanding of TF-IDF weighting
  • Basic tokenization and feature extraction choices
  • When sparse lexical features are appropriate for text classification