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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2007
Andrea Baader, Boeblingen, DE;
Jochen Doerre, Boeblingen, DE;
Monika Matschke, Calw, DE;
Andreas Neumann, Muelheim an der Ruhr, DE;
Roland Seiffert, Herrenberg, DE;
Andrea Baader, Boeblingen, DE;
Jochen Doerre, Boeblingen, DE;
Monika Matschke, Calw, DE;
Andreas Neumann, Muelheim an der Ruhr, DE;
Roland Seiffert, Herrenberg, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product implementing the method are provided to process a text search query in a collection of documents. A full posting index is generated for the documents in the collection. The full posting index comprises one or more first index terms and a full posting list for each first index term, enumerating the occurrences of the first index term in the documents. In addition to the full posting index, at least one additional posting index is generated for the documents. The additional posting index is related to a defined document part and comprises one or more second index terms and a restricted posting list for each second index term, enumerating all occurrences of the second index term in the document part of the documents of the collection. The text search query is performed using the additional posting index.