Beyond the Inverted Index

08/13/2019

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by   Zhi-Hong Deng, et al.

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In this paper, a new data structure named group-list is proposed. The group-list is as simple as the inverted index. However, the group-list divides document identifiers in an inverted index into groups, which makes it more efficient when it is used to perform the intersection or union operation on document identifiers. The experimental results on a synthetic dataset show that the group-list outperforms the inverted index.