The information in many databases consists of natural-language texts of documents; number-oriented databases primarily contain information such as statistics, tables, financial data, and raw scientific and technical data.
In 1998 the newspaper retained explicit sexual descriptions and slang in the texts of documents submitted to Congress by an independent counsel recommending impeachment action against President Clinton.... Discussion about an expletive does not end with the decision against using it.
From the viewpoint of digital information storage, it is useful to distinguish between "structured" data, such as inventories of objects that can be represented by short symbol strings and numbers, and "unstructured" data, such as the natural-language text of documents or pictorial images.
This definition follows the one from scikit-learn, the Python library that was used for this paper.6 To compare the text of documents, each document is represented by a vector with elements corresponding to the 50,000 most frequent terms across all documents.
As discussed above, Google Scholar searches the full text of documents but only displays a very brief snippet of content for the search hit.
Such a facility supports Open Access publishing efforts, as it requires access to full text of documents and the lifting of restrictions in order to show figures in the search interface.
On the Web, searching within the full text of documents has been standard for more than a decade, and much progress has been made on how to do this well.
Textpresso is used to index the full text of documents, and in particular, index the corpus by controlled vocabularies.
The attraction of ranked retrieval algorithms is that they can make use of the full text of documents to rank documents for searchers.
Like their Mennonite neighbors, the Schwenkfelders framed the texts of their documents, written in German or English, with a profusion of angels, birds, leaves and flowers.
Full texts of 43 documents were reviewed.
