stop-words

# Stop words

Stop words are words that are so common that they are often filtered out prior to, or after, processing of natural language data (text). For example, the pattern.vector module (by default) ignores stop words when constructing bag-of-words.

There is no definitive list of stop words. The following set is based on Martin Porter's list and expanded with words that occur frequently in other lists:

a, aboard, about, above, across, after, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, alongside, already, also, although, always, am, amid, amidst, among, amongst, an, and, another, anti, any, anybody, anyone, anything, anywhere, are, area, areas, aren't, around, as, ask, asked, asking, asks, astride, at, aught, away, back, backed, backing, backs, bar, barring, be, became, because, become, becomes, been, before, began, behind, being, beings, below, beneath, beside, besides, best, better, between, beyond, big, both, but, by, came, can, can't, cannot, case, cases, certain, certainly, circa, clear, clearly, come, concerning, considering, could, couldn't, daren't, despite, did, didn't, differ, different, differently, do, does, doesn't, doing, don't, done, down, down, downed, downing, downs, during, each, early, either, end, ended, ending, ends, enough, even, evenly, ever, every, everybody, everyone, everything, everywhere, except, excepting, excluding, face, faces, fact, facts, far, felt, few, fewer, find, finds, first, five, following, for, four, from, full, fully, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, gave, general, generally, get, gets, give, given, gives, go, goes, going, good, goods, got, great, greater, greatest, group, grouped, grouping, groups, had, hadn't, has, hasn't, have, haven't, having, he, he'd, he'll, he's, her, here, here's, hers, herself, high, high, high, higher, highest, him, himself, his, hisself, how, how's, however, i, i'd, i'll, i'm, i've, idem, if, ilk, important, in, including, inside, interest, interested, interesting, interests, into, is, isn't, it, it's, its, itself, just, keep, keeps, kind, knew, know, known, knows, large, largely, last, later, latest, least, less, let, let's, lets, like, likely, long, longer, longest, made, make, making, man, many, may, me, member, members, men, might, mightn't, mine, minus, more, most, mostly, mr, mrs, much, must, mustn't, my, myself, naught, near, necessary, need, needed, needing, needn't, needs, neither, never, new, new, newer, newest, next, no, nobody, non, none, noone, nor, not, nothing, notwithstanding, now, nowhere, number, numbers, of, off, often, old, older, oldest, on, once, one, oneself, only, onto, open, opened, opening, opens, opposite, or, order, ordered, ordering, orders, other, others, otherwise, ought, oughtn't, our, ours, ourself, ourselves, out, outside, over, own, part, parted, parting, parts, past, pending, per, perhaps, place, places, plus, point, pointed, pointing, points, possible, present, presented, presenting, presents, problem, problems, put, puts, quite, rather, really, regarding, right, right, room, rooms, round, said, same, save, saw, say, says, second, seconds, see, seem, seemed, seeming, seems, seen, sees, self, several, shall, shan't, she, she'd, she'll, she's, should, shouldn't, show, showed, showing, shows, side, sides, since, small, smaller, smallest, so, some, somebody, someone, something, somewhat, somewhere, state, states, still, still, such, suchlike, sundry, sure, take, taken, than, that, that's, the, thee, their, theirs, them, themselves, then, there, there's, therefore, these, they, they'd, they'll, they're, they've, thine, thing, things, think, thinks, this, those, thou, though, thought, thoughts, three, through, throughout, thus, thyself, till, to, today, together, too, took, tother, toward, towards, turn, turned, turning, turns, twain, two, under, underneath, unless, unlike, until, up, upon, us, use, used, uses, various, versus, very, via, vis-a-vis, want, wanted, wanting, wants, was, wasn't, way, ways, we, we'd, we'll, we're, we've, well, wells, went, were, weren't, what, what's, whatall, whatever, whatsoever, when, when's, where, where's, whereas, wherewith, wherewithal, whether, which, whichever, whichsoever, while, who, who's, whoever, whole, whom, whomever, whomso, whomsoever, whose, whosoever, why, why's, will, with, within, without, won't, work, worked, working, works, worth, would, wouldn't, ye, year, years, yet, yon, yonder, you, you'd, you'll, you're, you've, you-all, young, younger, youngest, your, yours, yourself, yourselves