Parallel text search methods

  • Authors:
  • Gerard Salton;Chris Buckley

  • Affiliations:
  • Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY;Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A comparison of recently proposed parallel text search methods to alternative available search strategies that use serial processing machines suggests parallel methods do not provide large-scale gains in either retrieval effectiveness or efficiency.