(data structure)
Definition: An inverted index which includes the block, or general location, within texts, in addition to the text in which the word appears.
See also full inverted index, inverted file index.
Note: See the example at inverted index.
Author: PEB
Nivio Ziviani, Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Compression: A Key for Next-Generation Text Retrieval Systems, IEEE Computer, 33(11):37-44, November 2000, (page 42).
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