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| 220 | Normalize text by removing articles, punctuation, and extra whitespace, and converting to lowercase. |
| 221 | """ |
| 222 | def remove_articles(text): |
| 223 | return re.sub(r'\b(a|an|the)\b', ' ', text) |
| 224 | def remove_punctuation(text): |
| 225 | return ''.join(ch for ch in text if ch not in string.punctuation) |
| 226 | def whitespace_fix(text): |