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Funser: a functional server for textual information retrieval†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Donald A Ziff ,
Stephen P Spackman  and
Keith Waclena
Donald A Ziff
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, IL, USA (email: ziff@cs.uchicago.edu)
Stephen P Spackman
Affiliation:
Computational Linguistics, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany (email: stephen@acm.org)
Keith Waclena
Affiliation:
University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL, USA (email: k-waclena@uchicago.edu)
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This paper describes a data-intensive application written in a lazy functional language: a server for textual information retrieval. The design illustrates the importance of interoperability, the capability of interacting with code written in other programming languages. Lazy functional programming is shown to be a powerful and elegant means of accomplishing several desirable concrete goals: delivering initial results promptly, using space economically, and avoiding unnecessary I/O. Performance results, however, are mixed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 317 - 343
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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