[Snowball-discuss] Stopword licenses

[Neal Richter]

In fact we have a finnish stop word list!  I'll ask about send it your 
way.

Thanks!

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Martin Porter wrote:

>
> Neal,
>
> Very interesting to read of your use of the snowball work. I'm glad it's
> been useful. (Perhaps we could add a reference to HtDig on our 'projects'
> page, which is updated all too infrequently.)
>
> The stopwords lists are BSD I guess, but I tend to be even more relaxed
> about their use than the stemmers themselves. As you say, they usually
> undergo a lot of massaging and adjusting before they become serviceable in
> another piece of work. Given that you are not using them in a way that makes
> acknowledgement easy, I suggest you don't bother to credit snowball as the
> source.
>
> Martin
>
> P.S. -- I don't suppose you have a stopword list for Finnish?
>
>
>
>
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