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Cryptic crossword solver
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stop words #58

Closed danmermel closed 4 years ago

danmermel commented 4 years ago

Stop words are hard because they have meaning in some clue types but not others.

e.g. hide in arthur's kingdom ...the word "in" has meaning as an indicator.

But we can probably do some work getting rid of stop words depending on the type of clue.

So either having a list of stopwords per clue type, or a generic list of stopwords that also has a reference for each clue type it applies to?

danmermel commented 4 years ago

Hidden Words --- check on proudction why Metal concealed by environmentalist (4) is not working

For now, making no changes re stopwords

danmermel commented 4 years ago

Double definitions

Decided to leave it because it makes it worse (we think datamuse somehow uses all the words you give it to come up with synonyms, so e.g. "a fast" returns "express" but "fast" does not return "express"

danmermel commented 4 years ago

homohpones -- decided not to touch these.... too many potential unintended consequences!

danmermel commented 4 years ago

anagrams - did not touch

danmermel commented 4 years ago

Containers and content - we are removing stop words

danmermel commented 4 years ago

reversals - removed stopwords from the definition and not from the subsidiary