On Continent and Script-Wise Divisions-Based Statistical Measures for Stop-words Lists of International Languages

Abstract

The data for the current research work was collected for 42 different International languages encompassing 3 continents viz. Asia, Europe and South America. The data comprised of unigram model representation of lexicons in the stop-words lists. 13 scripting systems comprising Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gurmukhi, Hanja & Hangul, Kana, Kanji, Marathi, Roman (Latin) and Thai were considered. Based on a comprehensive analysis of statistical measures for Stop-words lists, it has been concluded that Asian languages are mostly self-scripted and that the average number of stop-words in Asian languages is more than those in European languages. In addition to various important and other first research results, a very important inference from the current research work is that the average number of stop-words for any given language could be predicted to be 200.