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Cross-Document Pattern Matching

Data Structures and Algorithms 2012-06-21 v1

Abstract

We study a new variant of the string matching problem called cross-document string matching, which is the problem of indexing a collection of documents to support an efficient search for a pattern in a selected document, where the pattern itself is a substring of another document. Several variants of this problem are considered, and efficient linear-space solutions are proposed with query time bounds that either do not depend at all on the pattern size or depend on it in a very limited way (doubly logarithmic). As a side result, we propose an improved solution to the weighted level ancestor problem.

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@article{arxiv.1202.4076,
  title  = {Cross-Document Pattern Matching},
  author = {Gregory Kucherov and Yakov Nekrich and Tatiana Starikovskaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4076},
  year   = {2012}
}
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