# Create A Stopwords List

### Create a stopwords list from the Natural Language Tookit (NLTK)

#### [Research Notebook: Creating a Stopwords List for Research](https://docs.tdm-pilot.org/create-a/)

#### Download the stopwords list to your local device:

Step 1: Click "Jupyter" and go to the main directory\
Step 2: Go to folder "Data"\
Step 3: Check "stop\_words.csv" and click Download<br>

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#### Customize a stopwords list by adding your own stopwords:&#x20;

```python
my_stopwords= ['my_word1', 'my_word2']        #Add two custom stopwords
stop_words = stop_words + my_stopwords
#print(len(stop_words))

with open('data/stop_words.csv', 'w', newline='') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    writer.writerow(stop_words)
```


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