Why must text data be pre-processed ?

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Introduction Language is a structured medium we humans use to communicate with each other. Language can be in the form of speech or text. “Blah blah”, “Meh”, “zzzz…” Yup, we can understand these words. But the question is, “Can computers understand these?” Nop, machines can’t understandthese. In fact, machines can’t understand any text data at all, be it the word “blah” or the word “machine”. They only understand numbers. […]

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