IDF

English

Noun

IDF (plural IDFs)

1. (statistics) Initialism of inverse document frequency.
   • 2011, Matthew Russell, Mining the Social Web, page 215:

     A finer point to observe is that the sample implementation provided in Example 7-4 adjusts the IDF score by adding a value of 1.0 to the logarithm calculation, for the purposes of illustration and because we're dealing with a trivial document set.

   • 2014, Manas A. Pathak, Beginning Data Science with R, page 147:

     The idea behind inverse document frequency (IDF) is that all words in the corpus are not equally important.

   • 2019, Hobson Lane, Cole Howard, Hannes Max Hapke, Natural Language Processing In Action […] , Shelter Island: Manning, →ISBN:

     Inverse document frequency, or IDF, is your window through Zipf in topic analysis.

Derived terms

• TF-IDF

Proper noun

IDF

1. (military) Initialism of Iceland Defense Force.
2. (military) Initialism of Irish Defence Forces.
3. (military) Initialism of Israel Defense Forces.
   • 2023 October 9, Ben Doherty, “Israel military says situation ‘dire’ in south as 260 bodies retrieved from festival”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     IDF says fighting is ongoing in south, saying it ‘could be a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbour wrapped into one’ as Supernova festival-goers describe attack[.]

Translations

Israel Defense Forces

• Arabic: الْجَيْش الْإِسْرَائِيلِيّ m (al-jayš al-ʔisrāʔīliyy), الْجَيْش الدِّفَاع الْإِسْرَائِيلِيّ m (al-jayš ad-difāʕ al-ʔisrāʔīliyy)
• French: Tsahal (fr) m
• German: Zahal m
• Hebrew: צה״ל m (tsáhal)
• Russian: ЦАХА́Л (ru) m (CAXÁL), ЦА́ХАЛ (ru) m (CÁXAL)
• Spanish: FDI f pl

Anagrams

• DFI, DIF, FDI, Fid., dif, fid