NAME

       Lingua::StopWords - Stop words for several languages.

SYNOPSIS

           use Lingua::StopWords qw( getStopWords );
           my $stopwords = getStopWords('en');

           my @words = qw( i am the walrus goo goo g'joob );

           # prints "walrus goo goo g'joob"
           print join ' ', grep { !$stopwords->{$_} } @words;

DESCRIPTION

       In keyword search, it is common practice to suppress a collection of "stopwords": words such as "the",
       "and", "maybe", etc. which exist in in a large number of documents and do not tell you anything important
       about any document which contains them.  This module provides such "stoplists" in several languages.

   Supported Languages
           |-----------------------------------------------------------|
           | Language   | ISO code | default encoding | also available |
           |-----------------------------------------------------------|
           | Danish     | da       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Dutch      | nl       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | English    | en       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Finnish    | fi       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | French     | fr       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | German     | de       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Hungarian  | hu       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Italian    | it       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Norwegian  | no       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Portuguese | pt       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Spanish    | es       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Swedish    | sv       | ISO-8859-1       | UTF-8          |
           | Russian    | ru       | KOI8-R           | UTF-8          |
           |-----------------------------------------------------------|

FUNCTIONS

   getStopWords
           my $stoplist      = getStopWords('en');
           my $utf8_stoplist = getStopWords('en', 'UTF-8');

       Retrieve a stoplist in the form of a hashref where the keys are all stopwords and the values are all 1.

           $stoplist = {
               and => 1,
               if  => 1,
               # ...
           };

       getStopWords() expects 1-2 arguments.  The first, which is required, is an ISO code representing a
       supported language.  If the ISO code cannot be found, getStopWords returns undef.

       The second argument should be 'UTF-8' if you want the stopwords encoded in UTF-8.  The UTF-8 flag will be
       turned on, so make sure you understand all the implications of that.

SEE ALSO

       The stoplists supplied by this module were created as part of the Snowball project (see
       <http://snowball.tartarus.org>, Lingua::Stem::Snowball).

       Lingua::EN::StopWords provides a different stoplist for English.

AUTHOR

       Maintained by Marvin Humphrey <marvin at rectangular dot com>.  Original author Fabien Potencier, <fabpot
       at cpan dot org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2004-2008 Fabien Potencier, Marvin Humphrey

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.