I concur with Marvin on this point. It is very often confusing even
for me when using Lucene and the StandardAnalyzer with stop words
removed by default. The list is English and thus biased and often
wrong anyway. Less magic by default :)
Erik
On Apr 6, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
>
> 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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