Abstract

We survey two indices for text, with emphasis on Pat arrays (also called suffix arrays). A Pat array is an index based on a new model of text which does not use the concept of word and does not need to know the structure of the text. to appear in Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, R.A. Baeza-Yates and W. Frakes, eds., Prentice-Hall. 1 1 Introduction Text searching methods may be classified as lexicographical indices (indices that are sorted), clustering techniques, and indices based on hashing (for example, signature files [FC87]). In this report we discuss lexicographical indices, in particular, two main data structures: inverted files and Pat trees. Our aim is to build an index for the text of size similar to or smaller than the text. Briefly, the traditional model of text used in information retrieval is that of a set of documents. Each document is assigned a list of keywords (attributes), with optional relevance weights associated to each keyword. This ...

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