Don't use stop words

Author: linkdotnet

src/LinkDotNet.Blog.Web/Features/Services/Similiarity/TextProcessor.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System;
+using System.Collections.Frozen;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
@@ -8,6 +9,10 @@ namespace LinkDotNet.Blog.Web.Features.Services.Similiarity;
 public static partial class TextProcessor
 {
     private static readonly char[] Separator = [' '];
+    private static readonly FrozenSet<string> StopWords =
+    [
+        "a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by", "for", "if", "in", "into", "is", "it", "no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "such", "that", "the", "their", "then", "there", "these", "they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with"
+    ];
 
     public static IReadOnlyCollection<string> TokenizeAndNormalize(IEnumerable<string> texts)
         => texts.SelectMany(TokenizeAndNormalize).ToList();
@@ -18,7 +23,9 @@ private static IReadOnlyCollection<string> TokenizeAndNormalize(string text)
 
         text = text.ToUpperInvariant();
         text = TokenRegex().Replace(text, " ");
-        return [..text.Split(Separator, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)];
+        return text.Split(Separator, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
+            .Where(s => !StopWords.Contains(s))
+            .ToArray();
     }
 
     [GeneratedRegex(@"[^a-z0-9\s]")]

src/LinkDotNet.Blog.Web/Features/SimilarBlogPostJob.cs

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public async Task RunAsync(JobExecutionContext context, CancellationToken token)
         }
 
         var blogPosts = await blogPostRepository.GetAllByProjectionAsync(bp => new BlogPostSimilarity(bp.Id, bp.Title, bp.Tags, bp.ShortDescription));
-        var documents = blogPosts.Select(bp => TextProcessor.TokenizeAndNormalize(new[] { bp.Title, bp.ShortDescription }.Concat(bp.Tags))).ToList();
+        var documents = blogPosts.Select(bp => TextProcessor.TokenizeAndNormalize([bp.Title, bp.ShortDescription, ..bp.Tags])).ToList();
 
         var similarities = blogPosts.Select(bp => GetSimilarityForBlogPost(bp, documents, blogPosts)).ToArray();
         var ids = await similarBlogPostRepository.GetAllByProjectionAsync(s => s.Id);
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ private static SimilarBlogPost GetSimilarityForBlogPost(
         List<IReadOnlyCollection<string>> documents,
         IReadOnlyCollection<BlogPostSimilarity> blogPosts)
     {
-        var target = TextProcessor.TokenizeAndNormalize(new[] { blogPost.Title, blogPost.ShortDescription }.Concat(blogPost.Tags));
+        var target = TextProcessor.TokenizeAndNormalize([blogPost.Title, blogPost.ShortDescription, ..blogPost.Tags]);
 
         var vectorizer = new TfIdfVectorizer(documents);
         var targetVector = vectorizer.ComputeTfIdfVector(target);