So, the technical term (in English) for these filler words is stop
words,[1] and stripping them is common practice (esp. back in the bad old
days when we had less powerful computers—though it made searching for to
be or not to be really really hard). Stripping them when a query fails is
a
Yes you're right, reading and re-reading cirrus config file I can't find
anything that could bring more results by just tweaking some config
values :(
Next step is to use interwiki searches to run queries written in another
language which is also a big feature.
There's another feature we
Hi!
I uploaded a small HTML page to compare both approaches:
http://cirrus-browser-bot.wmflabs.org/suggest.html
This is very cool! From my very short testing, seems that it works
pretty nicely.
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Stas Malyshev
smalys...@wikimedia.org
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I ran some zero result rate tests against this API today, it is a huge
reduction in the zero result rate over the existing prefix search. from
32% to 19% (on a 1% sample of prefix searches for an entire day)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi!
