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  2. Full-text search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-text_search

    In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database.Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or bibliographical references).

  3. Inverted index - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of an inverted index is to allow fast full-text searches, at a cost of increased processing when a document is added to the database. [2] The inverted file may be the database file itself, rather than its index. It is the most popular data structure used in document retrieval systems, [3] used on a large scale for example in search ...

  4. Trie - Wikipedia

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    6.2 Full-text search. 6.3 Web search engines. 6.4 Bioinformatics. 6.5 Internet routing. ... 341 Using a vector of pointers for representing a trie consumes enormous ...

  5. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval

    In the case of document retrieval, queries can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science [ 1 ] of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds.

  6. Vector database - Wikipedia

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    A vector database, vector store or vector search engine is a database that can store vectors (fixed-length lists of numbers) along with other data items. Vector databases typically implement one or more Approximate Nearest Neighbor algorithms, [1] [2] [3] so that one can search the database with a query vector to retrieve the closest matching database records.

  7. Okapi BM25 - Wikipedia

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    In information retrieval, Okapi BM25 (BM is an abbreviation of best matching) is a ranking function used by search engines to estimate the relevance of documents to a given search query. It is based on the probabilistic retrieval framework developed in the 1970s and 1980s by Stephen E. Robertson , Karen Spärck Jones , and others.

  8. Talk:Full-text search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Full-text_search

    This article uses the terms "full text search" and "free text search" interchangeably. Is there a difference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.24.156 17:42, 5 November 2012 (UTC) This article uses "full-text" and "full text" interchangeably as well. If there is a differentiation there it needs to be defined.

  9. Approximate string matching - Wikipedia

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    A fuzzy Mediawiki search for "angry emoticon" has as a suggested result "andré emotions" In computer science, approximate string matching (often colloquially referred to as fuzzy string searching) is the technique of finding strings that match a pattern approximately (rather than exactly).