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  2. Mistral (software) - Wikipedia

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    Mistral works with an inverted index structure which is implemented as indexed sequential files. The configuration provides some flexibility by allowing, for example, the grouping together several fields in the same index. The software package has a set of tools for managing or reorganizing these files.

  3. Inverted index - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of an inverted index is to allow fast full-text searches, at a cost of increased processing when a document is added to the database. [2] The inverted file may be the database file itself, rather than its index. It is the most popular data structure used in document retrieval systems, [3] used on a large scale for example in search ...

  4. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    The forward index is sorted to transform it to an inverted index. The forward index is essentially a list of pairs consisting of a document and a word, collated by the document. Converting the forward index to an inverted index is only a matter of sorting the pairs by the words. In this regard, the inverted index is a word-sorted forward index.

  5. Postings list - Wikipedia

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    Inverted index: A form of postings list that points from terms to documents. Impact-ordered postings: Lists where postings are ordered by the weight or "impact" of the term in the document. Positional postings lists: Enhanced postings lists that include position information for phrase queries and proximity searches.

  6. BRS/Search - Wikipedia

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    BRS/Search is a full-text database and information retrieval system. BRS/Search uses a fully inverted indexing system to store, locate, and retrieve unstructured data. It was the search engine that in 1977 powered Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS) commercial operations with 20 databases (including the first national commercial availability of MEDLINE); it has changed ownership several ...

  7. Explicit semantic analysis - Wikipedia

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    Using this inverted index, one can find for any word the set of Wikipedia articles containing this word; in the vocabulary of Egozi, Markovitch and Gabrilovitch, "each word appearing in the Wikipedia corpus can be seen as triggering each of the concepts it points to in the inverted index." [1] The output of the inverted index for a single word ...

  8. Okapi BM25 - Wikipedia

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    The fuller name, Okapi BM25, includes the name of the first system to use it, which was the Okapi information retrieval system, implemented at London's City University [1] in the 1980s and 1990s. BM25 and its newer variants, e.g. BM25F (a version of BM25 that can take document structure and anchor text into account), represent TF-IDF -like ...

  9. IBM STAIRS - Wikipedia

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    The IBM Storage and Information Retrieval System, better known by the acronym STAIRS, was a program providing storage and online free-text search of text data. STAIRS ran under the OS/360 operating system under the CICS or IMS transaction monitors, and supported IBM 3270 display terminals.