remove periods from the cleaned word

.gitignore

@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@
 raw/*
 results/*
 logs/*
-specificity-model/*
+specificity-model/*
+specificity-results/*

utils.py

@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ def generate_embedding(model, sentence):
 def clean_word(input_word):
     cleaned_word = re.sub(r'\(.*?\)', '', input_word)
     cleaned_word = cleaned_word.strip().lower().replace(", raw", "").replace(" raw", "").replace(", nfs", "").replace(" nfs", "")
-    cleaned_word = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', cleaned_word)  # Remove double or more empty spaces
+    # Remove double or more empty spaces
+    cleaned_word = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', cleaned_word)
+    # remove periods
+    cleaned_word = cleaned_word.replace(".", "")
     cleaned_word = cleaned_word.strip()
     return cleaned_word