A Systematic Approach to Compressing a Full-Text Retrieval System.

Bookstein, Abraham; And Others

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Publication Date: 1992

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A Systematic Approach to Compressing a Full-Text Retrieval System.

Bookstein, Abraham; And Others

Information Processing and Management, v28 n6 p795-806 Nov-Dec 1992

Discusses the problems of compressing a large textual database for storage on CD-ROM. A text-compression algorithm is presented, new algorithms for compression of indices are described, and the ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) database is used as an example. (14 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Coding, Full Text Databases, Indexes, Information Processing, Mathematical Formulas, Models, Optical Data Disks

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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