On 24.10.2006, at 23:28, Scott Persinger wrote: > I am seeing trouble with searches for 'you' not returning anything. It > appears that 'you' is a stop word to the standard analyzer:
> I assumed from the docs that StandardAnalyzer was using stop words > as defined by: > > Ferret::Analysis::ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS > > I don't see 'you' in there. StandardAnalyzer actually uses Ferret::Analysis::FULL_ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS by default. (Note the 'FULL_') > Supplying my own stop words seems to fix the problem: Standard stop words are just a one-size-fit-all reasonable default. For maximum control you should always supply your own list of stop words. > I am running the latest Windows build, but I've seen the same behavior > on Linux with the latest builds. I am happy with my solution, but it > seems odd that 'you' should be standard stop word. Depends on how you look at it. 'You' is definitely not the least adequate candidate for a stop word. Then again, it's not included in Ferret::Analysis::ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
