[Snowball-discuss] Removing été from French stop words

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Thu Apr 16 01:05:33 BST 2020


On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 05:44:35PM -0400, Philippe Ouellet wrote:
> I propose to remove “été” and “étés” from the French stop words. It is
> true that they are a form for the verb “to be”, but it also mean
> “summer”, which should not be a stop word.

Sounds good to me.  It looks like there are other entries with the same
problem - e.g.  "aura" and "avions" are both also nouns.

But my French is rudimentary at best.  Could you review the whole list
and open a PR against the snowball-website repo with your proposed
changes?

I'd suggest we comment out such entries ("|" is the comment character
here) with a note as to why they are omitted.  That should help avoid
future requests to add the apparently missing entries.

Cheers,
    Olly



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