On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:45 AM, David Balmain wrote:

> Should stop-words be filtered by default?

-1

Queries return more relevant documents on average if you don't filter  
stopwords.  The default setting should be the one that produces the  
best search results.  Adding a stop filter should be part of  
performance tuning.

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/


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