Choosing the Right N-Gram Range
Balance signal against feature blow-up.
A Real Trade-Off
Picking an n-gram range is a balancing act. More context helps the model, but it can flood you with features and noise.
The Cost of Going Big
Each step up in n can multiply your vocabulary. This feature blow-up means slower training and a hungrier memory footprint.
All lessons in this course
- Why Single Words Lose Meaning
- Bigrams and Trigrams Explained
- N-Gram Features in scikit-learn
- Choosing the Right N-Gram Range