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Common Words Becoming Stopwords Problem
Posted by: sipatha ncube
Date: April 08, 2006 08:49AM

Hie there good people.

I've a small challenge here. I want to build an Employment Agency such that people will be able to search for jobs and all other related search functions.

I have read the MySQL manual and it say that if a word appears 50% or more in the rows it will be regarded as a stopword
..........The stopword list applies. In addition, words that are present in more than 50% of the rows are considered common and do not match. .....

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-search.html

Now i see the site is going to be used mainly by IT companies therefore there can be a likelyhood that words like 'Java' and 'VB' will appear more that 50% of the time in the database. MySQL developers thinks it might not produce desired results, but for a site as small as mine these are the desired and best results.

I think the issue of deciding when a word becomes a stopword should be left to the developer and not decided by MySQL, since these are particular to a given domain, i mean 'Java' might be enunsense when looking for tutorials but not when you looking for a job, and you would want to see all the available Java jobs.

Is there a work around for this??? I really need to get this going in no time. I can't contemplate myself changing databases at this stage of development.

Any related help is welcome.

rgds

sipatha.

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