an index structure storing a set of (key, posting list) pairs, where 'posting list' is a set of documents in which the key occurs
an inverted list index structure storing a
A set of records created from a LINEAR FILE. Each record consists of an ATTRIBUTE and a list of all entities that are associated with that attribute.
An index created from an inversion of all the words contained in all of the documents in a text database. See also text index.
An index into a bibliography database that allows for direct access. This can be compared to the thumb cuts of a dictionary, which allow a user to move to the exact location of the word being searched.
a list consisting of each word (except stopwords) and the location of that word in the file.
An inverted index (also referred to as postings file or inverted file) is an index structure storing a mapping from words to their locations in a document or a set of documents, allowing full text search. It is the most popular data structure used in document retrieval systems.
