[Snowball-discuss] newbie does snowball remove stop words?

[Andrew Davidson]

Hi Olly

I imagine removing stop words is a fairly common requirement. Any idea how people implement stop word removal with  snowball? 

The reason I originally thought snowball provided stop word removal was because of the following links  http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/english/stop.txt <http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/english/stop.txt> (from http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/english/stemmer.html <http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/english/stemmer.html>)

It seems to suggest there is some stop word support

Thanks

Andy

> On Mar 16, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 06:31:09PM -0700, Andrew Davidson wrote:
>> today I downloaded the java version of snowball and compiled it. I ran
>> a couple of little example through it. It does not appear to remove
>> stop works. Is this a bug? 
> 
> That's not a bug - snowball is a stemmer, not a stopword remover.
> 
> Cheers,
>    Olly

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