Removing common words / stopwords

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Revision as of 13:52, 16 March 2011 by Aymeric Mansoux (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<source lang="python"> from nltk.corpus import stopwords english_stops = set(stopwords.words("english")) words = "Stopwords are common words that are often handy to remove or ign...")
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from nltk.corpus import stopwords
english_stops = set(stopwords.words("english"))
words = "Stopwords are common words that are often handy to remove or ignore when processing text".split()
words = [w for w in words if w not in english_stops]
print words