Should I remove Stop words with POS tagging?

Question

I'm new to this NLP stuff but all the examples of POS tagging and Sentence Chunking I have seen don't seem to have removed stops words. So question I have if I'm doing POS tagging and Chunking is does this remove the need to remove stopwords (and also Stem)?

Answer 1

Without more context explaining what you are trying to accomplish, there is absolutely no reason to remove stop words. Most applications where you need POS tags need them for all of the input text, including the stop words.