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Stopword Removal

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May 1, 2024 5 minute read

Stopword removal is a common preprocessing step in natural language processing. Stopwords are words that occur frequently in a language but carry little meaning, such as "the", "is", and "of". Removing stopwords can reduce the size of a dataset and improve the performance of natural language processing models.

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