Agree with Arne Fitschen, and the source code of the system is probel
available.
It was used for indexing 300+ million word corpus of English and showed a
pretty good performance.
It can be compiled withot any problems under Linux and Cygwin.
BR,
Sergei
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arne Fitschen" <fitschen@ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: <corpora@lists.uib.no>
Sent: 19 ноября 2002 г. 15:04
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] On tools for indexing and searching large
corpora
> mdavies@ilstu.edu wrote:
> >
> > This is a question that I've asked myself many times. I would love to
see a
> > book that discussed the approach taken by the BNC, the BoE, CREA,
corpora based
> > on the IMS Corpus Workbench (such as O Público), etc to "look under the
hood"
> > and see how each of these corpora and indexing schemes is organized. As
you
> > mentioned, as more and more people start creating 100+ million word
corpora, it
> > would be a shame if they all ended up having to re-invent the wheel.
>
>
> I don't know of such a book, but for the IMS Corpus Workbench I believe
> that some of the ideas concerning data storage and indexing schemes were
> taken from this book:
>
> Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell
> Managing Gigabytes
> Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images
> May 1999
>
> (here's a link to the second edition of the book:
> http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/).
>
> Regards,
> Arne Fitschen
>
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