Quote: removing commonest stopwords from queries reduces search time by 60% on average, 3x on longer queries

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[For phrase queries using an inverted index] the impact of stopping on query evaluation … by a factor of 3 for longer queries. … It is the scale of these savings that … … [p. 220] [Nextword, phrase indices solve these problems.] These results show that there is … that such stopping leads to significant error rates. …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: a nextword index allows efficient processing of stopwords in phrase queries

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