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stopwords

Stopwords

Description

Return various kinds of stopwords with support for different languages.

Usage

stopwords(kind = "en")

Arguments

kind

A character string identifying the desired stopword list.

Details

Available stopword lists are:

catalan: Catalan stopwords (obtained from http://latel.upf.edu/morgana/altres/pub/ca_stop.htm),
romanian: Romanian stopwords (extracted from http://snowball.tartarus.org/otherapps/romanian/romanian1.tgz),
SMART: English stopwords from the SMART information retrieval system (as documented in Appendix 11 of https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume5/lewis04a/) (which coincides with the stopword list used by the MC toolkit (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dml/software/mc/)),

and a set of stopword lists from the Snowball stemmer project in different languages (obtained from http://svn.tartarus.org/snowball/trunk/website/algorithms/*/stop.txt). Supported languages are danish, dutch, english, finnish, french, german, hungarian, italian, norwegian, portuguese, russian, spanish, and swedish. Language names are case sensitive. Alternatively, their IETF language tags may be used.

Value

A character vector containing the requested stopwords. An error is raised if no stopwords are available for the requested kind.

Examples

stopwords("en")
stopwords("SMART")
stopwords("german")

tm

Text Mining Package

v0.7-8

GPL-3

Authors

Ingo Feinerer [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7656-8338>), Kurt Hornik [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-9911>), Artifex Software, Inc. [ctb, cph] (pdf_info.ps taken from GPL Ghostscript)

Initial release

2020-11-17