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Text Indexing Techniques

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Text indexing is the act of processing a text in order to extract statistics considered important for representing the information available and/or to allow fast search on its content. Text indexing operations can be performed not only on natural language texts, but virtually on any type of textual information, such as source code of computer programs, DNA or protein databases and textual data stored in traditional database systems.

Historical Background

Efforts for indexing electronic texts are found in literature since the beginning of computational systems. For example, descriptions of Electronic Information Search Systems that are able to index and search text can be found in the early of 1950s [3].

In a seminal work, Gerard Salton wrote, in 1968, a book containing the basis for the modern information retrieval systems [5], including a description of a model largely adopted up to now for indexing texts, known as Vector Space Model. Other successful models for indexing...

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  1. Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

    Edleno Silva De Moura

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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De Moura, E. (2009). Text Indexing Techniques. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1135

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