What is the main purpose of stop-word removal in NLP?

Options

  • A. To remove commonly occurring words that may carry little useful information
  • B. To translate text into another language
  • C. To convert text into an image
  • D. To increase the size of the vocabulary
  • E. None of the above

Correct Answer (Detailed Explanation is Below)

A. To remove commonly occurring words that may carry little useful information

Detailed Explanation

Stop-word removal is a text-processing technique in which frequently occurring words with limited importance for a particular NLP task are removed. Words such as “the”, “is”, “a”, and “of” may be treated as stop words. This can reduce the size of the text representation and simplify processing.

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