Corpora: Summary: Foreign stop words

[Alex Franz]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about non-English
stopwords, including:

Mike Scott <lexical at netcomuk.co.uk>
Stefan Thomas Gries <StThGries at t-online.de>
Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Robert J. Kuhns <kuhns at world.std.com>
Tim Buckwalter <tbuckwalter at tegic.com>

I received the following information:

- You can use Wordsmith (www.netcomuk.co.uk/~lexical/)
  to generate frequency lists.

- Mike Barlow's site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html
  hast lists for German, French, and English.

- Jean Veronis has a list for French on his homepage
  http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/

- There are French stop word lists at

  http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/public/1485.html
  http://www.loria.fr/~bonhomme/sw/

--Alex