Random Stopwords Selection from NLTK Dataset

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Code introduction


This code defines a function that randomly selects a specific number of stopwords from the NLTK stopwords dataset.


Technology Stack : NLTK, Tokenization, Stopwords

Code Type : The type of code

Code Difficulty : Intermediate


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

def random_stopwords():
    # Generate a list of random stopwords
    available_languages = ['english', 'spanish', 'french', 'german', 'italian']
    language = random.choice(available_languages)
    nltk.download(language)
    stop_words = set(stopwords.words(language))
    return list(random.sample(stop_words, 5))