Inverted treaps
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2017
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We introduce a new representation of the inverted index that performs faster ranked unions and intersections while using similar space. Our index is based on the treap data structure, which allows us to intersect/merge the document identifiers while simultaneously thresholding by frequency, instead of the costlier two-step classical processing methods. To achieve compression, we represent the treap topology using different alternative compact data structures. Further, the treap invariants allow us to elegantly encode differentially both document identifiers and frequencies. We also show how to extend this representation to support incremental updates over the index. Results show that, under the tf-idf scoring scheme, our index uses about the same space as state-of-the-art compact representations, while performing up to 2-20 times faster on ranked single-word, union, or intersection queries. Under the BM25 scoring scheme, our index may use up to 40% more space than the others and outperforms them less frequently but still reaches improvement factors of 2-20 in the best cases. The index supporting incremental updates poses an overhead of 50%-100% over the static variants in terms of space, construction, and query time.
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/168850
DOI: 10.1145/3007186
ISSN: 15582868
10468188
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volumen 35, Issue 3, 2017
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