+1 -- Doug is a great source of information on all things indexing related. Reading Doug's emails and articles is very educational.
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: >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]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
