Stop Words
Domain: NLP Fundamentals
🎯 Motivation
Common words like the, is, a that appear everywhere but carry little meaning. Often removed to save space.
📋 Concrete Example
Removing stop words from The cat sat on the mat gives cat sat mat. The core meaning stays.
🔗 Analogy
Like skimming a book and skipping filler words like um and uh to get to the real content.