code: def _load_stop_words(stop_words_path):
      with stop_words_path.open(encoding="utf8") as f:
          stop_words = set(l.strip() for l in f if l)
      return stop_words
  
imports: from __future__ import unicode_literals
  import json
  from collections import defaultdict
  from copy import deepcopy
  from pathlib import Path
  from future.utils import iteritems
  from snips_nlu.common.utils import get_package_path, is_package, json_string
  from snips_nlu.constants import CUSTOM_ENTITY_PARSER_USAGE, DATA_PATH, GAZETTEERS, NOISE, STEMS, STOP_WORDS, WORD_CLUSTERS, METADATA
  from snips_nlu.entity_parser.custom_entity_parser import CustomEntityParserUsage
label_desc: Use image node_id 16 for calling a global function with example usage: _load_stop_words(stop_words_path) and returns: stop_words