Stopwords

Description

Return various kinds of stopwords with support for different languages.

Usage

stopwords(kind = "en")

Arguments

Details

Available stopword lists are:

SMART

English stopwords from the SMART information retrieval system (obtained from http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume5/lewis04a/a11-smart-stop-list/english.stop) (which coincides with the stopword list used by the MC toolkit (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dml/software/mc/)),

catalan

Catalan stopwords (obtained from http://latel.upf.edu/morgana/altres/pub/ca_stop.htm), and

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")