Erik Hatcher wrote: > 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 :) > Stop-words are a form of optimisation. Premature optimisation is evil. Therefore applying stopwords by default (that is, before one knows anything about the performance and space constraints of the specific application context) is evil.
Having them available, should one need to reduce the index size, is extremely useful, but my vote goes to switching them off by default. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
