Inverted Index
- Inverted Index
- A type of index provides a mapping from words to their locations in a
document. Inverted Indexes are key to search engines, providing fast
lookups from terms to documents/web-pages.
The two main variants of Inverted Indexes are Inverted File Index and Fully Inverted Index.
For more information see:
- www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/invertedIndex.html - Definition of an inverted index together with examples.