Removal of stop words is essential in Natural Language Processing and text-related analysis. Existing works on Malay are based standard Quranic/Arabic translations into Malay. Thus, there a lack domain-specific word list, making it discordant for processing parliamentary discourse. In this paper, we propose semantic approach towards identifying removing Malay, conventional spelling English func...

In six experiments, subjects made speeded category and rhyme judgments about pairs of words and were occasionally asked to inhibit their responses. At issue was whether thoughts stop when the corresponding actions are inhibited. The extent to which thoughts were completed was assessed from memory for the words presented in the orienting tasks. Experiments 1 and 2 suggested that thoughts were no...

This study examined the durational structure of single and geminate stop distinction produced in three- and four-mora words of Japanese, (C(1))V(1)(C(2))C(2)V(2)X [(C(2))C(2) = the contrasting consonants; X = a CV mora, the moraic nasal, or a long vowel as part of V(2)]. The questions addressed were how factors such as speaking rate, segmental variability, and moraic composition of words affect...

Experienced typists were instructed to stop typing when they detected a stop signal (a tone or a change in the display). The main question addressed in four experiments was whether typing responses were organized into words or into units smaller than the word (single letters or letter clusters). If subjects typed whole words after the stop signal, the probability of inhibiting the last letter o...

Many words in documents recur very frequently but are essentially meaningless as they are used to join words together in a sentence. It is commonly understood that stop words do not contribute to the context or content of textual documents. Due to their high frequency of occurrence, their presence in text mining presents an obstacle to the understanding of the content in the documents. To elimi...

We present two approaches to the Amharic – English bilingual track in CLEF 2004. Both experiments use a dictionary based approach to translate the Amharic queries into English Bags-of-words, but while one approach removes non-content bearing words from the Amharic queries based on their IDF value, the other uses a list of English stop words to perform the same task. The resulting translated (En...

This paper investigates the perceptual significance of preaspiration in Swedish. Six minimal word pairs were recorded from a male speaker of Central Standard Swedish who had been observed to produce word-medial fortis stops with considerable preaspiration. Each word pair contrasted a sequence of a CV + long fortis stop and a CV + long lenis stop. The CV sequences were then excised from the sign...

In modern information retrieval systems, effective indexing can be achieved by removal of stop words. Till now many stop word lists have been developed for English language. However, no standard stop word list has been constructed for Chinese language yet. With the fast development of information retrieval in Chinese language, exploring Chinese stop word lists becomes critical. In this paper, t...