Re: Improving FTS for Greek

> On 7 Jun 2023, at 12:13 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
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> On 03.06.23 19:47, Florents Tselai wrote:
>> There’s another previous relevant patch [0] but was never merged. I’ve included these stop words and added some more (info in README.md).
>> For my personal projects looks like it yields much better results.
>> I’d like some feedback on the extension ; particularly on the installation infra (I’m not sure I’ve handled properly the permissions in the .sql files)
>> I’ll then try to make a .patch for this.
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> The open question at the previous attempt was that it wasn't clear what the upstream source or long-term maintenance of the stop words list would be. If it's just a personally composed list, then it's okay if you use it yourself, but for including it into PostgreSQL it ought to come from a reputable non-individual source like snowball.

I’ve used the NLTK list [0] as my base of stopwords; Wouldn’t this be considered reputable enough ?

0 https://github.com/nltk/nltk_data/blob/gh-pages/packages/corpora/stopwords.zip (see greek.stop file in the archive)

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