Cleaning text data is 80% of any NLP project — here's my actual checklist: Strip HTML, hashtags, ...Cleaning text data is 80% of any NLP project — here's my actual checklist: Strip HTML, hashtags, ...
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Cleaning text data is 80% of any NLP project — here's my actual checklist:
Strip HTML, hashtags, special characters
Lowercase + tokenize
Remove stop words (carefully — sometimes they matter)
Lemmatize, don't just stem, if word meaning matters
Most "bad model" complaints I've seen are actually bad-data problems.
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