Corpora: Using a relational database to store conc pointers

[Leidner, Jochen]

Hi Mickel,

can you post the reference to that Moffat article? Sounds interesting.

Thanks & regards,
Jochen

> It is also possible to sensibly reduce the above mentioned array
> by compressing ordered lists of occurrence positions. I found a
> paper by Alistair Moffat at the Dept. of Computer Science of Univ.
> of Melbourne describing a method for compressing ordered list of
> numbers.
[...]
> 18 bits on average, which is almost half of the 32 bits you would need
> when storing such a list of numbers in the obvious way.
> If you want, I can send you the program to have a look at it.


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