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Does remove words like “the” and “and” improve outcomes on this? I’d imagine speed would

• pamelafox 3y ago
  Those are typically called “stop words” and the article removed them for the example. Many NlP algorithms do remove stop words as a first step.
  • ubutler 3y ago
    Although worth noting that more recent techniques (eg, Transformers) need stop words for context.
    • Havoc 3y ago
      Does it actually help though? I would think embeddings of cat and the cat would be functionally similar