# steps for text preprocessing 
import re, string, unicodedata
import nltk
import contractions
import inflect
import pandas as pd 
from nltk import word_tokenize, sent_tokenize
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.stem import LancasterStemmer, WordNetLemmatizer

sample = ["This isn't a sample text."]

def text_preprocess(text): 
    # lowercase 
    
    # contractions? 
    
    # stemming 
    
    # lexical normalization 
    
    pass 

