on 7/10/02 9:35 AM, "Doug Cutting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nilsimsa appears to use what is called a "signature file" approach in > the literature, while Lucene uses an "inverted file". A search on > Google for "signature file versus inverted index" turns up a paper by > Zobel et. al. which concludes: > > Our conclusions are unequivocal. For typical document indexing > applications, current signature file techniques do not perform well > compared to current implementations of inverted file indexes. > > See: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~pirot/cs6111/Readings/zobel98.pdf > > Doug Wow! Great response Doug. =) Learn something new every day! -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
