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    What does NOISEWORDFILTER in the server voyager.ini do?

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    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Voyager

    Description:
    What does NOISEWORDFILTER in the server voyager.ini do?

    Resolution:
    NOISEWORDFILTER, or dynamic noise word reduction, improves the performance of keyword searches, particularly in large databases. It eliminates common words from a user's query for the purposes of searching but retains them for the purposes of relevance ranking.

    In the server-side voyager.ini file, NOISEWORDFILTER=Y will enable this feature (default setting is N). Dynamic noise word reduction uses these stop words:
    AND
    OR
    NOT
    OF
    IN
    THE
    WITH
    TO
    FOR

    See Technical User's Guide for additional information

    • Article last edited: 3/13/2015