Archive for the tag "stop words"
Selective Dissemination of Information
A researcher recently discovered something odd: she couldn’t use “abortion” in a keyword search Popline, a standard database on reproductive health hosted at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. What the–? Turns out, it’s now a stop word. Like “a” and “the.” Something you want excluded from a search. What the–? Turns [...]
Posted: 4 April, 2008 in Idiocy, Information Ethics, Political political.
Tags: abortion, censorship, Popline, stop words
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