Overview of Indexing in Text Preprocessing

Introduction

Indexing helps us create and maintain unique identifiers for individual words, characters, or other linguistic units within a text corpus for efficient retrieval, manipulation, and storage of textual data. When dealing with a lot of data, we might want to retrieve it efficiently for later manipulation. Indexing becomes crucial in such an instance.

Applications of indexing

Here are some common scenarios where we use indexing for text preprocessing: