Filtering Stopwords With NLTK
Drop the noise from a token list.
Let NLTK Do the Heavy Lifting
Building your own stopword list is fine, but NLTK already ships a curated one for many languages. Let us put it to work on a token list.
Grab the Data First
NLTK keeps word lists as downloadable data. You fetch the stopwords package once, then it stays on your machine.
import nltk
nltk.download("stopwords")All lessons in this course
- What Are Stopwords?
- Filtering Stopwords With NLTK
- Stripping Punctuation and Symbols
- Building a Reusable Clean-Text Function