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much meaning themselves (e.g. articles and connectives), as well as all punctuation marks and emoticons. To illustrate the effects of our pre-processing we present a few examples. 

## Original tweet: 

Looks like we will have more #autism research happening for children in #EarlyIn- tervention next year! :-) #VisualSupports #MobileTech 

## Pre-processed result: 

look like autism research happen child earlyintervention visualsupports mobiletech 

## Original tweet: 

Authors who see autism as “tremendously burdening” elicit dire views of autism from parents http://j.mp/1FyqXwF “Ethical approval: none” 

## Pre-processed result: 

author see autism tremend burden elicit dire view autism parent url ethic approv none 

