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[Hossein Salahshoor Gavalan]

Hi,

My question is kind of basic!
I would like to use keybert, but I don't know whether removing punctuations are helpful or not!
More deeply, are punctuations essential for text classification tasks?

[Maarten Grootendorst]

It highly depends on the embedding model that you use. For most transformer-based models, it is important to keep the punctuations as they are part of the context.