How vectorizer fit_transform work in sklearn?

Question

I'm trying to understand the following code

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer 

vectorizer = CountVectorizer() 

corpus = ['This is the first document.','This is the second second document.','And the third one.','Is this the first document?'] 

X = vectorizer.fit_transform(corpus)

When I try to print X to see what will be return, I got this result :

(0, 1)  1

(0, 2)  1

(0, 6)  1

(0, 3)  1

(0, 8)  1

(1, 5)  2

(1, 1)  1

(1, 6)  1

(1, 3)  1

(1, 8)  1

(2, 4)  1

(2, 7)  1

(2, 0)  1

(2, 6)  1

(3, 1)  1

(3, 2)  1

(3, 6)  1

(3, 3)  1

(3, 8)  1

However, I don't understand the meaning of this result ?

Answer 1

You can interpret this as "(sentence_index, feature_index) count"

As there are 3 sentence: it starts from 0 and ends at 2

feature index is word index which u can get from vectorizer.vocabulary_

-> vocabulary_ a dictionary {word:feature_index,...}

so for the example (0, 1) 1

-> 0 : row[the sentence index]

-> 1 : get feature index(i.e. the word) from vectorizer.vocabulary_[1]

-> 1 : count/tfidf (as you have used a count vectorizer, it will give you count)

instead of count vectorizer, if you use tfidf vectorizersee here it will give u tfidf values. I hope I made it clear

Answer 2

As @Himanshu writes, this is a "(sentence_index, feature_index) count"

Here, the count part is the "number of times a word appears in a document"

For example,

(0, 1) 1

(0, 2) 1

(0, 6) 1

(0, 3) 1

(0, 8) 1

(1, 5) 2 Only for this example, the count "2" tells that the word "and" appears twice in this document/sentence

(1, 1) 1

(1, 6) 1

(1, 3) 1

(1, 8) 1

(2, 4) 1

(2, 7) 1

(2, 0) 1

(2, 6) 1

(3, 1) 1

(3, 2) 1

(3, 6) 1

(3, 3) 1

(3, 8) 1

Let's change the corpus in your code. Basically, I added the word "second" twice in the second sentence of the corpus list.

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer 

vectorizer = CountVectorizer() 

corpus = ['This is the first document.','This is the second second second second document.','And the third one.','Is this the first document?'] 

X = vectorizer.fit_transform(corpus)

(0, 1) 1

(0, 2) 1

(0, 6) 1

(0, 3) 1

(0, 8) 1

(1, 5) 4 for the modified corpus, the count "4" tells that the word "second" appears four times in this document/sentence

(1, 1) 1

(1, 6) 1

(1, 3) 1

(1, 8) 1

(2, 4) 1

(2, 7) 1

(2, 0) 1

(2, 6) 1

(3, 1) 1

(3, 2) 1

(3, 6) 1

(3, 3) 1

(3, 8) 1