1Lingua::StopWords(3)  User Contributed Perl Documentation Lingua::StopWords(3)
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NAME

6       Lingua::StopWords - Stop words for several languages.
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SYNOPSIS

9           use Lingua::StopWords qw( getStopWords );
10           my $stopwords = getStopWords('en');
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12           my @words = qw( i am the walrus goo goo g'joob );
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14           # prints "walrus goo goo g'joob"
15           print join ' ', grep { !$stopwords->{$_} } @words;
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DESCRIPTION

18       In keyword search, it is common practice to suppress a collection of
19       "stopwords": words such as "the", "and", "maybe", etc. which exist in
20       in a large number of documents and do not tell you anything important
21       about any document which contains them.  This module provides such
22       "stoplists" in several languages.
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24   Supported Languages
25           |-----------------------------------------------------------|
26           | Language   | ISO code | default encoding | also available |
27           |-----------------------------------------------------------|
28           | Danish     | da       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
29           | Dutch      | nl       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
30           | English    | en       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
31           | Finnish    | fi       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
32           | French     | fr       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
33           | German     | de       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
34           | Hungarian  | hu       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
35           | Italian    | it       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
36           | Norwegian  | no       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
37           | Portuguese | pt       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
38           | Spanish    | es       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
39           | Swedish    | sv       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
40           | Russian    | ru       | KOI8-R           | UTF-8          |
41           |-----------------------------------------------------------|
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FUNCTIONS

44   getStopWords
45           my $stoplist      = getStopWords('en');
46           my $utf8_stoplist = getStopWords('en', 'UTF-8');
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48       Retrieve a stoplist in the form of a hashref where the keys are all
49       stopwords and the values are all 1.
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51           $stoplist = {
52               and => 1,
53               if  => 1,
54               # ...
55           };
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57       getStopWords() expects 1-2 arguments.  The first, which is required, is
58       an ISO code representing a supported language.  If the ISO code cannot
59       be found, getStopWords returns undef.
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61       The second argument should be 'UTF-8' if you want the stopwords encoded
62       in UTF-8.  The UTF-8 flag will be turned on, so make sure you
63       understand all the implications of that.
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SEE ALSO

66       The stoplists supplied by this module were created as part of the
67       Snowball project (see <http://snowball.tartarus.org>,
68       Lingua::Stem::Snowball).
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70       Lingua::EN::StopWords provides a different stoplist for English.
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AUTHOR

73       Maintained by Marvin Humphrey <marvin at rectangular dot com>.
74       Original author Fabien Potencier, <fabpot at cpan dot org>.
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77       Copyright 2004-2008 Fabien Potencier, Marvin Humphrey
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79       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
80       under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at
81       your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
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85perl v5.28.1                      2008-08-22              Lingua::StopWords(3)
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