English Stop Words

A list of English stop words.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/datasets-stopwords-en

Usage

var stopwords = require( '@stdlib/datasets-stopwords-en' );

stopwords()

Returns a list of 301 english stop words.

var list = stopwords();
/* returns
    [
        'a',
        'about',
        'above',
        'across',
        'actually',
        ...
    ]
*/

Examples

var floor = require( '@stdlib/math-base-special-floor' );
var randu = require( '@stdlib/random-base-randu' );
var stopwords = require( '@stdlib/datasets-stopwords-en' );

var list = stopwords();
var len = list.length;
var idx;
var i;

// Select random words from the list...
for ( i = 0; i < 100; i++ ) {
    idx = floor( randu()*len );
    console.log( list[ idx ] );
}

License

The data files (databases) are licensed under an Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License 1.0 and their contents are licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal. The software is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

See Also

• @stdlib/datasets-stopwords-en-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

For more information on the project, filing bug reports and feature requests, and guidance on how to develop stdlib, see the main project repository.

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