def label$\_$vectorizer$($labels$,$ tag$\_$map$)$:

$"""$

Convert list of label strings to padded label IDs using a tag mapping.

Parameters:

labels $($list of str$)$: List of label strings.

tag$\_$map $($dict$)$: Dictionary mapping tags to IDs.

Returns:

label$\_$ids $($numpy$.$ndarray$)$: Padded array of label IDs.

$"""$

label$\_$ids $=[]$ # It can't be a numpy array yet, since each sentence has a different size

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# Each element in labels is a string of tags so for each of them:

for element in labels:

# Split it into single tokens. You may use $.$split function for strings. Be aware to split it by a blank space!

tokens $=$ None

# Use the dictionaty tag$\_$map passed as an argument to the label$\_$vectorizer function

# to make the correspondence between tags and numbers.

element$\_$ids $=$ None

for token in tokens:

element$\_$ids.append$($None$)$

# Append the found ids to corresponding to the current element to label$\_$ids list

label$\_$ids.append$($None$)$

label$\_$ids $=$ np$.$array$($element$\_$ids$)$

# Pad the elements

label$\_$ids $=$ None

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return label$\_$ids