I was always uncomfortable with stopwords. Ignoring some data smells like overfitting, or perhaps a naïve algorithm (as in, it has no concept of structure – whi

I was always uncomfortable with stopwords. Ignoring some data smells like overfitting, or perhaps a naïve algorithm (as in, it has no concept of structure – which is often the case, for computational reasons). That said, the last time I dabbled in IR, my algorithm choked on stopwords. I should revisit it.