California Digital
Library
Clustering :: Issues :: Stopwords
lWords that dont contribute topically should be in a stopword list
lIssue of what to do with proper nouns?
States: remove
captured by Geographical browse facet
Localities: remove
only if they impact topic clustering (e.g., Seattle, Port Townsend)
Personal and
corporate names: probably best to remove since their importance as known entities is fairly subjective
scott
morris
mabel
turner
john
mary
names
photograph
photoprint
portrait
genre
jpeg
tiff
epson
photoshop
windows
digitization
dorothea
lange
keystone
mast
banc
collection
one, two
monday,
january,
...
alabama
alaska
california
calif
the
and
from
other
geographic
standard