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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 28960] New: - Add "an" to the English stop words

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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: lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ats37@hotmail.com


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 :-)

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Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 28960] New: - Add "an" to the English stop words

Posted by Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>.
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 <er...@ehatchersolutions.com> 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, bugzilla@apache.org wrote:
> 
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> > 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: lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> >         ReportedBy: ats37@hotmail.com
> >
> >
> > 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 :-)
> >
> >
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Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 28960] New: - Add "an" to the English stop words

Posted by Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>.
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, bugzilla@apache.org wrote:

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> 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: lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org
>         ReportedBy: ats37@hotmail.com
>
>
> 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 :-)
>
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