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A list of words that for reasons of volume or ["Precision"] and ["Recall"] will not be included in the index and hence are not searchable. E.g. "and", "or", "not" etc.
There are two ways to filter stoplist words from an input token stream:
- Examine lexical analyzer output and remove any stopwords
Remove stopwords as part of the lexical analysis: This is one of the more efficient ways to implement a StopList
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