app/django/utils/stopwords.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:37:56 +0000
changeset 810 208659644a7f
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Hide 'tos' pull-down selector from Program profile forms. Until a way to select Documents for use as the Terms of Service for a Program exists (see http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=151), there is no point in hacking in scope_path and link_id fields here. The per-Program ToS feature will just be unavailable until an appropriate Document selector exists. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: to-be-reviewed

# Performance note: I benchmarked this code using a set instead of
# a list for the stopwords and was surprised to find that the list
# performed /better/ than the set - maybe because it's only a small
# list.

stopwords = '''
i
a
an
are
as
at
be
by
for
from
how
in
is
it
of
on
or
that
the
this
to
was
what
when
where
'''.split()

def strip_stopwords(sentence):
    "Removes stopwords - also normalizes whitespace"
    words = sentence.split()
    sentence = []
    for word in words:
        if word.lower() not in stopwords:
            sentence.append(word)
    return u' '.join(sentence)