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protocol

stop_words_protocol

Stop-word enumeration and filtering protocol.

| Availability: | logtalk_load(stop_words(loader))

| Author: Paulo Moura | Version: 1:0:0 | Date: 2026-09-05

| Compilation flags: | static

| Dependencies: | (none)

| Remarks: | (none)

| Inherited public predicates: | (none)

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Public predicates

.. index:: stop_word/1 .. _stop_words_protocol/0::stop_word/1:

stop_word/1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Enumerates canonical stop words using the configured text representation.

| Compilation flags: | static

| Template: | stop_word(Word) | Mode and number of proofs: | stop_word(?text) - zero_or_more

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.. index:: is_stop_word/1 .. _stop_words_protocol/0::is_stop_word/1:

is_stop_word/1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

True if the word, after ASCII lowercasing, is a stop word.

| Compilation flags: | static

| Template: | is_stop_word(Word) | Mode and number of proofs: | is_stop_word(+text) - zero_or_one

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.. index:: exclude/2 .. _stop_words_protocol/0::exclude/2:

exclude/2 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Removes stop words, preserving the representation, value, and order of the remaining words.

| Compilation flags: | static

| Template: | exclude(Words,Filtered) | Mode and number of proofs: | exclude(+list(text),-list(text)) - one

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Protected predicates

(none)

Private predicates

(none)

Operators

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.. seealso::

:ref:`stop_words_language_protocol <stop_words_language_protocol/0>`, :ref:`stop_words(Representation,Language) <stop_words/2>`