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Stop words are usually extremely common words in a language
which are filtered out before processing of natural language
data. There is no single universal list of stop words used by all
NLP tools but here are some common english stop words:

a, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, for, from, has, he, in, is it, its, of, on,
that, the, to, was, were, will, with, …

• Some stop words lists (a.k.a. stop lists):
    • http:snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/english/stop.txt
    • http:xpo6.com/list-of-english-stop-words/