Interface StopWords

All Superinterfaces:
Dictionary, Iterable<String>
All Known Implementing Classes:
EnglishStopWords
public interface StopWords extends Dictionary
A set of stop words in some language. Stop words is the name given to word s which are filtered out prior to, or after, processing of natural language text. There is no definite list of stop words which all NLP tools incorporate. Not all NLP tools use a stop list. Some tools specifically avoid using them to support phrase search.

Stop words can cause problems when using a search engine to search for phrases that include them, particularly in names such as 'The Who', 'The The', or 'Take That'.

  • Method Details

    • isNotStopWord

      default boolean isNotStopWord(String word)
      Returns true if the word is NOT a stop word. Convenience negation of Dictionary.contains(String).
      Parameters:
      word - the query word.
      Returns:
      true if this dictionary does not contain the specified word.