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TMS: A free‐form text‐management system
Author(s) -
Amur Rekha,
Mohan K. Ananda,
Ramaswami M. D.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380200307
Subject(s) - pointer (user interface) , computer science , graphics , inverted index , variable (mathematics) , information retrieval , document management system , data management , relation (database) , index (typography) , database , world wide web , artificial intelligence , search engine indexing , computer graphics (images) , mathematics , mathematical analysis
TMS (Text Management System) is a database management system that supports an access method based on both select and search queries. TMS provides support for variable‐length records with pointer fields within the relation. Pointers can be used to support not only text but data from any media, such as graphics and images. An inverted index based on the variable‐length record structure is used for speedy retrieval of records based on keywords. In this paper, the variable length record management of TMS and the keyword‐based retrieval mechanism are described.