Michael - because they are the most frequent, which is how MLT selects terms to use for querying, IIRC.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Michael Ludwig <m...@as-guides.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 6:20:05 AM > Subject: Re: Implementing PhraseQuery and MoreLikeThis Query in one app > > SergeyG schrieb: > > > Can both queries - PhraseQuery and MoreLikeThis Query - be implemented > > in the same app taking into account the fact that for the former to > > work the stop words list needs to be included and this results in the > > latter putting stop words among the most important words? > > Why would the inclusion of a stopword list result in stopwords being of > top importance in the MoreLikeThis query? > > Michael Ludwig