Newsgroups: comp.databases
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: Text archive for newspapers needed
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.174445.13166@sq.sq.com>
Keywords: database archive newspaper free text
Organization: SoftQuad Inc.
References: <295@accur8.UUCP> <1990Oct4.164051.908@sq.sq.com> <7007@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 90 17:44:45 GMT
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In an article on text retrieval, I mistakenly wrote:
>> I might also consider
>> * BRS Search, because it's one of the ``market leaders'', although my
>>  experience is that this is one of the packages with a 300% index...

tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) of BRS corrects me:
> Our typical loaded/indexed database (with the 'C' based version of the
> product, which is what I am involved with) is 120-150% of the original
> input text.

It seems that I had outdated or incorrect information.  The experiments I
saw led me to believe that there was a greater indexing overhead than this,
but I apologise if I have given a wrong impression, as it seems.

Lee

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Liam R. E. Quin,  lee@sq.com, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, +1 (416) 963-8337