Stopword Removal Function

This function removes stopwords from the given text. Stopwords are common words that are generally considered to have little semantic value, such as 'and', 'the', 'is', etc.

Technology Stack : nltk.corpus.stopwords, nltk.tokenize.word_tokenize

Code Type : Text processing

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import random
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize

def remove_stopwords_from_text(text):
    stop_words = set(stopwords.words('english'))
    word_tokens = word_tokenize(text)
    filtered_text = [w for w in word_tokens if not w.lower() in stop_words]
    return ' '.join(filtered_text)