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Jacso, Peter – 2001
This book provides guidelines for evaluating a variety of database types, including abstracting and indexing, directory, full-text, and page-image databases available in online and/or CD-ROM formats. The book discusses the purpose and techniques of comparing and evaluating the most important characteristics of textual databases, such as their…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Comparative Analysis, Database Design, Databases
Peer reviewedMoffat, Alistair; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1994
Describes an approximate document ranking process that uses a compact array of in-memory, low-precision approximations for document length. Combined with another rule for reducing the memory required by partial similarity accumulators, the approximation heuristic allows the ranking of large document collections using less than one byte of memory…
Descriptors: Database Design, Database Management Systems, Full Text Databases, Information Retrieval
