Query-processing costs on large text databases are dominated … for inverted lists can be greatly reduced by … the CPU component … for conjunctive Boolean queries and for informal ranked … by the inclusion of an internal index in … [i.e., by one- level skipping]. This method has been applied in a retrieval system for … [They reduced processing time to 20% with an index that was 10% of the indexed text.]
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