Dear Colleagues,
would anybody have a handy generalizable definition of 'stopwords'?
- Terms which are not searched on most databases?
- Terms with no meaning of their own; function only as part of the sentence
syntax?
- SilverPlatter: 'Words of little intrinsic meaning that appear too
frequently to
be useful in searching text are known as "stopwords.' Why is 'mug' a
stopword for
SilverPlatter?
- Terms which are just noise, never a signal?
- Terms with no descriminatory power?
It depends I suppose a bit on the context; one may well have 'the' in the
index of pronouns ...
I would be grateful for any suggestions.
Reinhard
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