Managing Gigabytes : Compressing and Indexing Documents and ImagesThe end result of applying the techniques described here is a computer system that can store millions of documents, and retrieve the documents that contain any given combination of keywords in a matter of seconds or fractions of a second. Written for an eclectic audience of information professionals and for graduate courses. Sections for technically or theoretically oriented readers can be skipped by others without loss of continuity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Overview | 1 |
Text Compression | 21 |
Indexing | 72 |
Querying | 116 |
Index Construction | 175 |
Image Compression | 212 |
Textual Images | 254 |
Mixed Text and Images | 295 |
Implementation | 328 |
The Information Explosion | 375 |
A Guide to the mg System | 391 |
Nontextual files | 407 |
Index | 425 |
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