Where would you not want to remove stop words ?

Stop words can be in most application removed  when you are doing bag of words features. Some exceptions can involve sentiment analysis where ‘not’ cannot be removed because it is a stop word.

When you are not using bag of words, any model where you have context required – say n-grams or sequence-to-sequence models, removing stop words leads to less powerful and sometimes bad models.

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