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Bell, Timothy C.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Describes compression methods for components of full-text systems such as text databases on CD-ROM. Topics discussed include storage media; structures for full-text retrieval, including indexes, inverted files, and bitmaps; compression tools; memory requirements during retrieval; and ranking and information retrieval. (Contains 53 references.)…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Full Text Databases, Indexes, Information Retrieval