The notion of indexing refers to the creation of the file structures, which reflect the logical nature of the given document collection. Besides of the creation of the file structures, an indexing process also involves the following issues:
Other issues
See also
A more comprehensive introduction to the indexing can be found in KeithVanRijsbergen's Information Retrieval (London: Butterworths, 1979)
Chapter 4. Terrier/LiveDoc/Indexing contains a live documentation of the indexing component of
Terrier.