diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..660615a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Twitter-L-LDA
+A set of tools for performing Labeled Latent Dirichlet Allocation on textual datasets, with an emphasis on Twitter profiles. Contains tools for analysing the results of model training and inference.
+
+## My Use/Scope
+- I used this code as a guide to perform stop word and stemming in a tfidf algorithm for a web blog software
+- Created some pull requests for bug found in original repository
diff --git a/util/Stopwords.java b/util/Stopwords.java
index 4c21e22..2061837 100644
--- a/util/Stopwords.java
+++ b/util/Stopwords.java
@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ public class Stopwords {
 	public static boolean isStopword(String word) {
 		if(word.length() < 2) return true;
 		if(word.charAt(0) >= '0' && word.charAt(0) <= '9') return true; //remove numbers, "25th", etc
-		if(stopWordSet.contains(word)) return true;
+		if(stopWordSet.contains(word.toLowerCase())) return true;
 		else return false;
 	}
 	
 	public static boolean isStemmedStopword(String word) {
 		if(word.length() < 2) return true;
 		if(word.charAt(0) >= '0' && word.charAt(0) <= '9') return true; //remove numbers, "25th", etc
-		String stemmed = stemString(word);
-		if(stopWordSet.contains(stemmed)) return true;
-		if(stemmedStopWordSet.contains(stemmed)) return true;
-		if(stopWordSet.contains(word)) return true;
-		if(stemmedStopWordSet.contains(word)) return true;
+		String stemmed = stemString(word.toLowerCase());
+		if(stopWordSet.contains(stemmed.toLowerCase())) return true;
+		if(stemmedStopWordSet.contains(stemmed.toLowerCase())) return true;
+		if(stopWordSet.contains(word.toLowerCase())) return true;
+		if(stemmedStopWordSet.contains(word.toLowerCase())) return true;
 		else return false;
 	}
 	
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public static String removeStopWords(String string) {
 		String[] words = string.split("\\s+");
 		for(String word : words) {
 			if(word.isEmpty()) continue;
-			if(isStopword(string)) continue; //remove stopwords
+			if(isStopword(word)) continue; //remove stopwords
 			result += (word+" ");
 		}
 		return result;