get_feature_names not found in countvectorizer()

Question:

I’m mining the Stack Overflow data dump of posts about deep learning libraries. I’d like to identify stop words in my corpus (like ‘python’ for instance). I want to get my feature names so I can identify the words with highest term frequencies.

I create my documents and my corpus as follows:

with open("StackOverflow_2018_Data.csv") as csv_file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',')
    line_count = 0
    pytorch_doc = ''
    tensorflow_doc = ''
    cotag_list = []
    keras_doc = ''
    counte = 0
    for row in csv_reader:
        if row[2] == 'tensorflow':
            tensorflow_doc += row[3] + ' '
        if row[2] == 'keras':
            keras_doc += row[3] + ' '
        if row[2] == 'pytorch':
            pytorch_doc += row[3] + ' '

corpus = [pytorch_doc, tensorflow_doc, keras_doc]
vectorizer = CountVectorizer()
x = vectorizer.fit_transform(corpus)
print(x)
x.toarray()
Dict = []
feat = x.get_feature_names()
for i,arr in enumerate(x):
    for x, ele in enumerate(arr):
        if i == 0:
            Dict += ('pytorch', feat[x], ele)
        if i == 1:
            Dict += ('tensorflow', feat[x], ele)
        if i == 2:
            Dict += ('keras', feat[x], ele)

sorted_arr = sorted(Dict, key=lambda tup: tup[2])

However, I am getting:

  File "sklearn_stopwords.py", line 83, in <module>
    main()
  File "sklearn_stopwords.py", line 50, in main
    feat = x.get_feature_names()
  File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scipy/sparse/base.py", line 686, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(attr + " not found")
AttributeError: get_feature_names not found
Asked By: maddie

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Answers:

get_feature_names is a method in the CountVectorizer Object. You are trying to access get_feature_names the results of fit_transform which is a scipy.sparse matrix.

You need to use vectorizer.get_feature_names().

Try this MVCE:

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)

features = vectorizer.get_feature_names()

features

Output:

['and', 'document', 'first', 'is', 'one', 'second', 'the', 'third', 'this']
Answered By: Scott Boston

Make sure that the version of sklearn you are using is 1.0 or greater.

The method get_feature_names_out() substitutes the already deprecated and removed get_feature_names() one.

Example :

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer

n_gram_range = (1, 1)
stop_words = "english"


doc = """
         Supervised learning is the machine learning task of 
         learning a function that maps an input to an output based 
         on example input-output pairs.
      """

# Extract candidate words/phrases
count = CountVectorizer(ngram_range=n_gram_range,
                        stop_words=stop_words).fit([doc])

# candidates = count.get_feature_names()
candidates = count.get_feature_names_out()
candidates

Output:

array(['based', 'example', 'function', 'input', 'learning', 'machine',
       'maps', 'output', 'pairs', 'supervised', 'task'], dtype=object)
Answered By: Nikita Malviya