Ability to just tag stopwords, not remove them

[helt]

From the documentation of dkpro-core-stopwordremover-asl it is not clear to me, if the stopword-remover is capable of just annotating tokens with a stopword annotation or if it always removing those annotations.

I.e. i have a use case where i have to able to check if all tokens under an ngram are stopwords... The documentation reads (for me) like i am not able to achieve this with the stopword remover...

[reckart]

We once had a StopwordAnnotator, but it seemed to be basically just a dictionary annotator - so we removed it. The StopwordRemover does not annotate stopwords, it purges Token annotations and related annotations from the document.

You could consider using the DictionaryAnnotator to annotate stopwords for your task.

[helt]

does it feature that fancy language dependent file loading mechanism?

e.g. [de]classpath:/stopwords/en_articles.txt

[reckart]

No, but the code of both components is pretty straightforward. It should be easy to port that functionality and we're always happy to accept contributions :) (