keras (version 2.3.0.0)

layer_text_vectorization: Text vectorization layer

Description

This layer has basic options for managing text in a Keras model. It transforms a batch of strings (one sample = one string) into either a list of token indices (one sample = 1D tensor of integer token indices) or a dense representation (one sample = 1D tensor of float values representing data about the sample's tokens).

Usage

layer_text_vectorization(
  object,
  max_tokens = NULL,
  standardize = "lower_and_strip_punctuation",
  split = "whitespace",
  ngrams = NULL,
  output_mode = c("int", "binary", "count", "tfidf"),
  output_sequence_length = NULL,
  pad_to_max_tokens = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

Model or layer object

max_tokens

The maximum size of the vocabulary for this layer. If NULL, there is no cap on the size of the vocabulary.

standardize

Optional specification for standardization to apply to the input text. Values can be NULL (no standardization), "lower_and_strip_punctuation" (lowercase and remove punctuation) or a Callable. Default is "lower_and_strip_punctuation".

split

Optional specification for splitting the input text. Values can be NULL (no splitting), "split_on_whitespace" (split on ASCII whitespace), or a Callable. Default is "split_on_whitespace".

ngrams

Optional specification for ngrams to create from the possibly-split input text. Values can be NULL, an integer or a list of integers; passing an integer will create ngrams up to that integer, and passing a list of integers will create ngrams for the specified values in the list. Passing NULL means that no ngrams will be created.

output_mode

Optional specification for the output of the layer. Values can be "int", "binary", "count" or "tfidf", which control the outputs as follows:

  • "int": Outputs integer indices, one integer index per split string token.

  • "binary": Outputs a single int array per batch, of either vocab_size or max_tokens size, containing 1s in all elements where the token mapped to that index exists at least once in the batch item.

  • "count": As "binary", but the int array contains a count of the number of times the token at that index appeared in the batch item.

  • "tfidf": As "binary", but the TF-IDF algorithm is applied to find the value in each token slot.

output_sequence_length

Only valid in "int" mode. If set, the output will have its time dimension padded or truncated to exactly output_sequence_length values, resulting in a tensor of shape (batch_size, output_sequence_length) regardless of how many tokens resulted from the splitting step. Defaults to NULL.

pad_to_max_tokens

Only valid in "binary", "count", and "tfidf" modes. If TRUE, the output will have its feature axis padded to max_tokens even if the number of unique tokens in the vocabulary is less than max_tokens, resulting in a tensor of shape (batch_size, max_tokens) regardless of vocabulary size. Defaults to TRUE.

...

Not used.

Details

The processing of each sample contains the following steps:

  1. standardize each sample (usually lowercasing + punctuation stripping)

  2. split each sample into substrings (usually words)

  3. recombine substrings into tokens (usually ngrams)

  4. index tokens (associate a unique int value with each token)

  5. transform each sample using this index, either into a vector of ints or a dense float vector.