What is the purpose of stopword removal in NLP?
a) To remove punctuation marks
b) To remove commonly used words that do not add much meaning
c) To eliminate numbers from text
d) To highlight keywords
Answer:
b) To remove commonly used words that do not add much meaning
Explanation:
Stopword removal eliminates words like “the”, “is”, “and” to reduce noise and focus on meaningful words in the text.
Reference:
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Quiz – MCQ Questions and Answers