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license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
tags:
  - stopwords
  - unsupervised
  - multilingual
  - bible

target-stopwords

Per-language function-word lists, induced from that language's own Bible text — frequency + dispersion (the classic corpus-linguistics stopword-induction recipe), then RESCUED against the language's own alignment output + a source-anchored content signal so genuinely frequent CONTENT words ("God", "Lord") are never dropped. See the lexeme-aligner's target_stopwords.py for the mechanism: a candidate is rescued if it concentrates most of its aligned mass on one prior-pack content lexeme (≥40% share) — a true function word instead scatters thinly across dozens of distinct lexemes.

Many of the covered languages have no existing curated stopword list anywhere — this is a reusable resource for search, IR, topic modeling, or any NLP task needing one in these languages.

CC0-1.0 — derived word-frequency statistics, no source text redistributed. See manifest.json for per-language stats + content hashes.