Thank you very much for such a detailed reply. can you please tell me how can i interact with solr from within my Java/JSP application ? I mean how to query the solr running at localhost and getting results back in the application. Do i have to change something there in solrconfig.xml ? Please help me in this regards
Thanks in advance -- Akeel On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stopwords are commonly occurring words that don't add _much_ value to > search, such as the, an, a and are usually removed during analysis. > Protwords (protected words) are words that would be stemmed by the English > porter stemmer that you do not want to be stemmed. > > In the end, removing stopwords may keep your index smaller and can keep > some queries from taking a long time, but they also mean you can't query for > those words. As for protwords, that is something you would do if you felt > the results for those tokens was "off". > > Many people use stopwords, many don't. Personally, I don't think removing > them is the right thing to do, as there isn't always a way to recover them > and they do provide meaning, otherwise why would they be needed in the > language? Often, the best thing to do, is keep stopwords, but handle them > intelligently on the query side (in phrases, etc.). However, since you're a > beginner, it probably makes sense to just throw out stopwords for now. > > -Grant > > > On May 21, 2008, at 1:50 AM, Akeel wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I am a beginner to Solr, I have successfully indexed my db in solr. I want >> to know that what are the stopwords and protwords ??? and how much they >> have >> effect on my search results ? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Akeel >> >> > -- Thanks and Regards, Akeel ur Rehman Faridee http://riseofpakistan.blogspot.com cell: 0321-4714151 ==================================================== When there is injustice in society, then everyone will go to politics Except the two kinds: those who are timid and those who are materialist (Aristotle) ====================================================
