app/django/utils/stopwords.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:34:40 +0000
changeset 207 8ecc2e4198cd
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Take advantage of the Model inheritance provided by polymodel.PolyModel to have create a class hierarchy rooted at Person. Also, add some missing Role classes, such as Role, (Organization) Mentor, (Club) Member, (School) Student. Make (Organization) Administrator be a Reviewer like Mentor is. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga, Sverre Rabbelier, Augie Fackler Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/607

# 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)