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		dangerlibrary on Oct 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TextTeaser – An automatic summarization algorithm Why would "Philippine" be hard-coded in as a stop word?

MojoJolo on Oct 12, 2013 [–]

Didn't manage to remove it.

I created a news reader for Philippine news (http://www.readborg.com/) using TextTeaser. The word Philippine appears most of the time and I decided to make it as a stop word. Forgot to remove it in the stop words.

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