This is asked by some customer, who may not know what's "stop words" at all.
Jake's approach should be quite similar to what some search engine companies are doing. It'll cost some storage, but can achieve a good user experience. The benefit is kind of obvious in real world. When users enter some query, they do not really know stop words like "the" are not in the index at all. If they are looking for something, like a book titled "search the database", other books like "search database" is ranked top, which is not a good user experience. -- Chris Lu ------------------------- Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application site: http://www.dbsight.net demo: http://search.dbsight.com Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: http://wiki.dbsight.com/index.php?title=Create_Lucene_Database_Search_in_3_minutes DBSight customer, a shopping comparison site, (anonymous per request) got 2.6 Million Euro funding! On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Erick Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's your reason for trying? The whole point of stop words is that > they should be considered "no ops". That is, they add nothing to the > semantics of whatever is being processed. I' don't understand the use > case for why you want to go outside that assumption. > > Another way of asking this is "what tangible benefit to your users > are you trying to implement"? > > Best > Erick > > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Chris Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let's say "the" is considered stopword. And for example two documents are > > document A, content: "... search the database..." > > document B, content: "... search database..." > > > > So when the user's input is "search the database", searching with > > query content:"search database"~1 can return both. > > But is there any way to translate that into a query that can rank the > > document A higher than document B? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Chris Lu > > ------------------------- > > Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application > > site: http://www.dbsight.net > > demo: http://search.dbsight.com > > Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: > > > > > http://wiki.dbsight.com/index.php?title=Create_Lucene_Database_Search_in_3_minutes > > DBSight customer, a shopping comparison site, (anonymous per request) > > got 2.6 Million Euro funding! > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
