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Fast Error-Tolerant Search on Very Large Texts

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Celikik,  Marjan
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Bast,  Holger
Algorithms and Complexity, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Celikik, M., & Bast, H. (2009). Fast Error-Tolerant Search on Very Large Texts. In D. Shin (Ed.), The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 1724-1731). New York, NY: ACM.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-184C-3
Abstract
We consider the following spelling variants clustering problem: Given a list of distinct words, called lexicon, compute (possibly overlapping) clusters of words which are spelling variants of each other. This problem naturally arises in the context of error-tolerant full-text search of the following kind: For a given query, return not only documents matching the query words exactly but also those matching their spelling variants. This is the inverse of the well-known "Did you mean: ... ?" web search engine feature, where the error tolerance is on the side of the query, and not on the side of the documents. We combine various ideas from the large body of literature on approximate string searching and spelling correction techniques to a new algorithm for the spelling variants clustering problem that is both accurate and very efficient in time and space. Our largest lexicon, containing roughly 10 million words, can be processed in about 16 minutes on a standard PC using 10 MB of additional space. This beats the previously best scheme by a factor of two in running time and by a factor of more than ten in space usage. We have integrated our algorithms into the CompleteSearch engine in a way that achieves error-tolerant search without significant blowup in neither index size nor query processing time.