Bag-of-words is a simplified natural language processing concept. Text documents are parsed and output as collections of words (i.e. stripped of punctuation, etc.). In the bag-of-words concept, the resulting collection of words is considered for further analytics without regard to order, grammar, etc. (but the multiple occurrence of words is tracked).
Statistics and data science, defined
Bag-of-words
Where this gets used
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