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Dhopadhola
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Afrikaans
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Amharic
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Dagbani/Dagbanli
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Dagaare
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Zarma
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English
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Fulfulde
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French
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Gonja
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Gurene
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Ekegusii
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Hausa
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Kikamba
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Ngakarimojong
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Kakwa
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Gikuyu
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Kalenjin
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Sabinyi
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Kanuri
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Lugbarati
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Luganda
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Olukhayo
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Aringati
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Dholuo
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Chichewa
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Chinyungwe
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Afan Oromo
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Portuguese
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Kinyarwanda
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Kiswahili
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Ateso
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Setswana
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Yoruba
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Dataset Card for Stopword Lists for African Languages

Dataset Summary

Context:

Some words, like “the” or “and” in English, are used a lot in speech and writing. For most Natural Language Processing applications, you will want to remove these very frequent words. This is usually done using a list of “stopwords” which has been complied by hand.

Content:

This project uses the source texts provided by the African Storybook Project as a corpus and provides a number of tools to extract frequency lists and lists of stopwords from this corpus for the 60+ languages covered by ASP.

Included in this dataset are the following languages:

  • Afrikaans: stoplist and word frequency
  • Hausa: stoplist and word frequency
  • Lugbarati: word frequency only
  • Lugbarati (Official): word frequency only
  • Somali: stoplist and word frequency
  • Sesotho: stoplist and word frequency
  • Kiswahili: stoplist and word frequency
  • Yoruba: stoplist and word frequency
  • isiZulu: stoplist and word frequency

Files are named using the language’s ISO code. For each language, code.txt is the list of stopwords, and code_frequency_list.txt is word frequency information. A list of ISO codes the the languages associated with them may be found in ISO_codes.csv.

Acknowledgements:

This project therefore attempts to fill in the gap in language coverage for African language stoplists by using the freely-available and open-licensed ASP Source project as a corpus. Dual-licensed under CC-BY and Apache-2.0 license. Compiled by Liam Doherty. More information and the scripts used to generate these files are available here.

Inspiration:

This dataset is mainly helpful for use during NLP analysis, however there may some interesting insights in the data.

  • What qualities do stopwords share across languages? Given a novel language, could you predict what its stopwords should be?
  • What stopwords are shared across languages?
  • Often, related languages will have words with the same meaning and similar spellings. Can you automatically identify any of these pairs of words?

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