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I saw that in new version of Mathematica there is an interesting function: DeleteStopwords that deletes stopwords from a list of words, but this function is only for the English language. But I'm Italian and my "stopwords" are different from English ones. So I'm wondering if there is a method to create a personal stopwords, and delete a text from it. This is my code 

Clear["Global`*"]
mytext = Import["https://gallery.mailchimp.com/66b77b8f219a30e5da628b18b/files/ps.txt"];
WordCloud[mytext]

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As you can see there are a lot of word that are stopwords.

Another ideas is to cut all words with length less than three. Any ideas? Thanks.

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  • $\begingroup$ You may have to roll your own. You can find lists of stop words for Italian on the web (e.g. code.google.com/p/stop-words and import them to Mathematica. Then you might use TextWords to get a list of words from your text, and Complement[yourwordlist, stopwordlist] to get a cleaned list to feed to WordCloud. Unfortunately I'm on a tablet at the moment and can't actually do it myself... $\endgroup$ – MarcoB Oct 31 '15 at 15:27
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I use:

RemoveStopWords[doc_, stopWords_] := 
  StringDelete[doc, 
   WordBoundary ~~ Alternatives @@ stopWords ~~ WordBoundary, 
   IgnoreCase -> True];

Where stopWords is a list of all stop words, I found a list of stop words for my language easily through an internet search.

In addition to this I also remove words that are too short. Another option is to use a method that puts less weight on common words, have a look at TF-IDF for example:

tf–idf can be successfully used for stop-words filtering in various subject fields including text summarization and classification.

You could essentially use it to figure out what words should be considered stop words. But you'd need more than one document for sure, so it depends on what data you're working with.

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Another ideas is to cut all words with length less than three. Any ideas?

StringReplace[mytext, 
 WordBoundary ~~ Repeated[WordCharacter, 2] ~~ WordBoundary -> ""]

But I suppose less or equal three would be better. Put there 3 then and:

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This is a very interesting question and very interesting answers. I tried to evaluate the answer of Kuba using the MarcoB suggestions. For instance:

Clear["Global`*"]
mytext = Import[
"https://gallery.mailchimp.com/66b77b8f219a30e5da628b18b/files/ps.\
txt"];
stopwordit = 
Import["https://sites.google.com/site/kevinbouge/stopwords-lists/\
stopwords_it.txt?attredirects=0&d=1", {"Text"}];
WordCloud[mytext]

enter image description here

Then I used the kuba function:

RemoveStopWords[doc_, stopWords_] := 
StringDelete[doc, 
WordBoundary ~~ Alternatives @@ stopWords ~~ WordBoundary, 
IgnoreCase -> True];
textwithoutSW = RemoveStopWords[mytext, stopwordit];
WordCloud[textwithoutSW]

enter image description here

but the WordClouds are the same, although the word "che" is on the StopWords in Italian language. What's wrong?

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    $\begingroup$ You don't import the stop words properly, try "List" or "Table" instead: stopwordit = Import["sites.google.com/site/kevinbouge/stopwords-lists\ stopwords_it.txt?attredirects=0&d=1", "List"]; (And that's not from Kuba's post!) $\endgroup$ – V.E. Oct 31 '15 at 17:06

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