Publications

We define BitPart (Bitwise representations of binary Partitions), a novel exact search mechanism intended for use in high-dimensional spaces. To our knowledge, it gives the best compromise currently known for performing exact search over data whose dimensionality is too high to allow the useful application of metric indexing, yet is still sufficiently low to give at least some traction from the metric and supermetric properties.

In this paper we evaluate this technique in the context of string spaces, and compare it to other published techniques for mapping strings to vectors.

Here we consider automated linking of the vital events recorded in the civil registers of birth, death and marriage compiled in Scotland, to bring together the various records associated with the demographic events in the life course of each individual in the population.