Improved dynamic dictionary matching

Amihood Amir, Martin Farach, Ramana M. Idury, Johannes A. Lapoutre, Alejandro A. Schaffer

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Abstract

In the dynamic dictionary matching problem, a dictionary D contains a set of patterns that can change over time by insertion and deletion of individual patterns. The user also presents text strings and asks for all occurrences of any patterns in the text. The two main contributions of this paper are: (1) a faster algorithm for dynamic string dictionary matching with bounded alphabets, and (2) a dynamic dictionary matching algorithm for two-dimensional texts and patterns. The first contribution is based on an algorithm that solves the general problem of maintaining a sequence of well-balanced parentheses under the operations insert, delete, and find nearest enclosing parenthesis pair. The main new idea behind the second contribution is a novel method to efficiently manipulate failure links for two-dimensional patterns.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)258-282
Number of pages25
JournalInformation and Computation
Volume119
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1995
Externally publishedYes

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