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Nelson, Michael J. – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Applies a prefix trie index, or trie hashing, to the problem of providing fast search times, fast load times, and fast update properties in a bibliographic or full-text retrieval system with inverted files. Statistics are given for a test database consisting of an online catalog at the University of Western Ontario. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Full Text Databases, Indexing, Information Retrieval