Re: [Classifier4j-devel] New Stop Words Provider

[moedusa <mo...@in...>]

Matt Collier wrote:

> Attached is an alternate stop words provider for classifier4J.  I simply 
> copied the whole of DefaultStopWordsProvide.java and renamed it to 
> AlphaStopWordsProvider.java.

May I suggest one thing? I think, it would be better not to hard-code 
stop-list, or pass string or URL with stop-words-file location, but to 
find it automatically from the classpath. The idea came from an article 
at onjava.com 
(http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jebp_3/index1.html?page=3), 
here is a small quotation, explaining what should be done:

"Example 
3-4[http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jebp_3/index1.html?page=3#ex3-4] 
demonstrates the search technique with a class called Resource. Given a 
resource name, the Resource constructor searches the class path and 
resource path attempting to locate the resource. When the resource is 
found, it makes available the resource contents as well as its directory 
location and last modified time (if those are available). The last 
modified time helps an application know, for example, when to reload the 
configuration data. The class uses special code to convert file: URL 
resources to File objects. This proves handy because URLs, even file: 
URLs, often don't expose special features such as a modified time. By 
searching both the class path and the resource path this class can find 
server-wide resources and per-application resources."

You can find code for that class here: 
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jebp_3/index1.html?page=3 it 
seems that it would be better solution. Well, I hope.

Sorry for my poor English, it is not my native language. Also I am sorry 
  for just making suggestions and not doing any coding, but I have three 
deadlines now and simply have no time for that, but I want help somehow 
this project to become more useful.