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Stop word removal in Javascript

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HI I am looking for a library that'll remove stop words from text in Javascript, my end goal is to calculate tf-idf and then convert the given document into vector space, and all of this is Javascript.
Can anyone point me to a library that'll help me do that.Just a library to remove the stop words would also be great.

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answered 13 Years ago kieraelsies · Accepted Answer

I think there are no libraries for such thing, you need to download those words from https://www.ranks.nl/stopwords.

And then do replace the words as follows:

text = text.replace(stopword, "")