A Formal System for Information Retrieval from Files

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1970, Pages 67-73

  Hsiao, David ^a   Harary, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

attribute value; description; directory; directory search; file; file search; generalized file structure; index; index sequential file; inverted file; K list; K pointer; keyword; multilist file; pair; parallel processing of lists; prime keyword; record; record address; serial processing of lists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938019458     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/362007.362015     Document Type: Article

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