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   Michael Widner
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   I haven't been able to turn up an existing stop word list for Old English. Does anyone know of one? Thanks!

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   scottkleinman
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   I've tried to generate Old English stop word lists for various experiments from time to time, but never to my satisfaction. Spelling variation is a problem, though not as bad as Middle English. But there is also a tremendous amount of homography--so much that it is almost better to generate a list of homographs and tag forms with separate meanings in the source text(s) before doing anything else. After that, you can just generate a list of the most frequent forms in the corpus. You'll probably then have to tailor this list by deleting forms like "wæs" or "cwom" if they're not relevant to your experiment.

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   Michael Widner
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   Thanks for the response. That fits what I was expecting given the variability of the language.

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