On 10/14/02 10:00 AM, "Benoit Hediard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
..
>
> I recommand you not to empty the noise words files, you'll loose some great
> capabilities of full-text search.
> For example, if someone search for a letter/number or a common word ('the',
> 'or'...), those words should be ignored, otherwise you'll get plenty of
> "noise" in your results.
> Even if it is minimal, the noise words file should never be empty.
>
Make sure you know your subject domain. I was indexing popular
song titles and using a stop word list. I tried to search for
the Huey Lewis song "If This Is It" -- and of course I couldn't
find it -- all four are stop words.
Of course, in most domains, stop words are good.
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