Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox Searches For "AND" vs "&"

[Stuart Langridge <stuart langridge canonical com>]

On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 14:41 -0400, Kyle Baker wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Stuart Langridge
> <stuart langridge canonical com> wrote:
> > Agreed, for two reasons. The first is that it makes it much easier to
> > throw an artist name from some other part of Rhythmbox into the search
> > widget and have it work (we do this from the Ubuntu One music store, for
> > example, although there we know we'll get it right). The second is that
> > such lists of stopwords already exist, so they should be easy to
> > incorporate :-)
> 
> Are these stop lists pre-installed somewhere in most distributions or
> just available on the Internet, meaning they will need to be added?
> Also, where can they be found?

Well, the only thing I can find in Ubuntu is liblingua-stopwords-perl, a
Perl package. However, the list of stopwords isn't large (English ones
from that Perl package at
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/maverick/liblingua-stopwords-perl/maverick/annotate/head:/lib/Lingua/StopWords/EN.pm and the other languages are there too), and I suspect that the list of ordinary search stopwords wouldn't necessarily apply to music searching anyway ("You're", for example, is a common English search stopword, but you'd probably want to include it in a music search), so I think it'd be reasonable to build and include a Rhythmbox-specific stopword list in Rhythmbox rather than depending on something provided in distros. (The list could obviously be inspired by existing stopword lists in packages or on the web, though.)

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