Yeah, I think that would cause problems for some people. I'm for closing that bug and maybe even just removing all the stop words from the Lucene core, so people don't rely on them, as they are really more for a demo and should not be done.
Otis --- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't mind adding "an" to the list, but should we be concerned > about > any backwards compatibility issues with this change? > > Erik > > > On May 13, 2004, at 2:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG > > RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT > > <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28960>. > > ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND > > INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE. > > > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28960 > > > > Add "an" to the English stop words > > > > Summary: Add "an" to the English stop words > > Product: Lucene > > Version: unspecified > > Platform: PC > > OS/Version: Windows NT/2K > > Status: NEW > > Severity: Minor > > Priority: Other > > Component: Analysis > > AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > In org.apache.lucene.analysis.StopAnalyzer, the ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS > > array > > contains "a" but not "an". So searching for "a fund" will get the > > same hits as > > "fund", but searching for "an investment" will get many more hits > than > > "investment". > > > > This is true in the latest revision of the file, but appears to > have > > always been > > the case. I'm amazed nobody's pointed it out before now, our users > > > had only > > been testing for a few hours before they complained about it :-) > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
