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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 2y ago
  Although worth noting that more recent techniques (eg, Transformers) need stop words for context.
  • Havoc 2y ago
    Does it actually help though? I would think embeddings of cat and the cat would be functionally similar