Added GAE tasks that are related to updating GHOP Tasks.
Several TODO's have been added. Also note that some functionality that is being used here is under construction and is being integrated asap. That's the price to pay for cleaner integration commits I guess :).
Reviewed by: Lennard de Rijk
# 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)