Lowercasing and Stripping Whitespace
Your first normalization steps.
Your First Two Steps
The simplest normalization is folding case and trimming spaces. Master these two and you already remove most of the noise that splits your word counts. ✨
Lowercasing in One Call
Python strings carry a built-in lower method. It returns a fresh copy with every letter folded to lowercase, leaving the original untouched.
text = 'The QUICK Fox'
print(text.lower())All lessons in this course
- Why Case and Spacing Matter
- Lowercasing and Stripping Whitespace
- Stemming: Chopping to the Root
- Lemmatization: Smarter Base Forms