diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
index 7ad67cb5a..5e94c2f95 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/pipes.pyx
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ from ..attrs import POS, ID
 from ..parts_of_speech import X
 from .._ml import Tok2Vec, build_tagger_model
 from .._ml import build_text_classifier, build_simple_cnn_text_classifier
+from .._ml import build_bow_text_classifier
 from .._ml import link_vectors_to_models, zero_init, flatten
 from .._ml import masked_language_model, create_default_optimizer
 from ..errors import Errors, TempErrors
@@ -876,6 +877,8 @@ class TextCategorizer(Pipe):
         if cfg.get("architecture") == "simple_cnn":
             tok2vec = Tok2Vec(token_vector_width, embed_size, **cfg)
             return build_simple_cnn_text_classifier(tok2vec, nr_class, **cfg)
+        elif cfg.get("architecture") == "bow":
+            return build_bow_text_classifier(nr_class, **cfg)
         else:
             return build_text_classifier(nr_class, **cfg)