diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java
index d0390cd93e5..7ac1b3f1ce6 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ package org.apache.lucene.analysis;
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.Set;
 
@@ -43,6 +45,11 @@ public final class StopAnalyzer extends Analyzer {
   public StopAnalyzer(String[] stopWords) {
     this.stopWords = StopFilter.makeStopSet(stopWords);
   }
+  
+  /** Builds an analyzer with the stop words from the given file. */
+  public StopAnalyzer(File stopwordsFile) throws IOException {
+    stopWords = WordlistLoader.getWordSet(stopwordsFile);
+  }
 
   /** Filters LowerCaseTokenizer with StopFilter. */
   public TokenStream tokenStream(String fieldName, Reader reader) {
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/standard/StandardAnalyzer.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/standard/StandardAnalyzer.java
index 03f8c421d8a..f09443fe813 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/standard/StandardAnalyzer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/standard/StandardAnalyzer.java
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ package org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard;
  */
 
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.*;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.util.Set;
 
@@ -43,6 +46,11 @@ public class StandardAnalyzer extends Analyzer {
     stopSet = StopFilter.makeStopSet(stopWords);
   }
 
+  /** Builds an analyzer with the stop words from the given file. */
+  public StandardAnalyzer(File stopwords) throws IOException {
+    stopSet = WordlistLoader.getWordSet(stopwords);
+  }
+
   /** Constructs a {@link StandardTokenizer} filtered by a {@link
   StandardFilter}, a {@link LowerCaseFilter} and a {@link StopFilter}. */
   public TokenStream tokenStream(String fieldName, Reader reader) {