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Gordon D Plotkin

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A document index is generated from a set of documents and is used to identify documents that match one or more queries. A tree is generated for each document with a node corresponding to each object of the document. The nodes of the generated trees are merged or combined to generate the document index, which is itself a tree. In addition, an inverted index is generated for each node of the index that identifies the tree(s) that the node originated from. When a query is received, the query is first executed against the document index tree: during the execution, proper set operations are applied to the inverted indices associated with the nodes matched by the query. The resulted set identifies the documents that may match the query. The query is then executed on the identified documents.

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Gordon D Plotkin