Why is TFIDF seen as a model in Gensim
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP Why is TFIDF seen as a model in Gensim I am familiar with the tfidf vectorizer. However, in gensim it seems like tfidf is treated as a model on itself, just like LDA, LSI and others. Why is this the case? Can't tfidf not just be used to vectorize and then to input in an LDA model for example? Link to documentation: https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/tut2.html From the link you provided, it looks like they're vectorizing the corpus first then putting it into an LSI transformation which is standard. Looking at the TFIDF Model documentation, it looks to be the same as SkLearn's TFIDF, just in this case they use the word "model" to describe it. – W Stokvis Jul 25 at 13:34 @WStokvis so you think you can insert the tfidf vectorized document in an ldamodel for example? ...