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Andrew Nystrom

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Jun 27, 2014, 11:14:18 AM6/27/14
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Do you suggest removing stop words, or leaving them in the text when using the language models?

Andrew Nystrom

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Jun 27, 2014, 11:14:37 AM6/27/14
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And by using, I mean both training and inferring :)

Adam Pauls

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Jun 30, 2014, 12:15:22 PM6/30/14
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Definitely not. Language models are designed to use the whole text. 

Andrew Nystrom

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Jun 30, 2014, 3:47:54 PM6/30/14
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OK great. Does the same apply to all punctuation?

Andrew Nystrom

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Jun 30, 2014, 3:52:39 PM6/30/14
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Including quotes, semicolons, dashes, etc (not just sentence markers).
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