One-Pass Text Compression with a Subword Dictionary.

Jakobsson, Matti

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ERIC Number: EJ376554

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Publication Date: 1988

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One-Pass Text Compression with a Subword Dictionary.

Jakobsson, Matti

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v39 n4 p262-69 Jul 1988

Presents a model and experimental results of a new one-phase technique for compression text files that is a modification of the Ziv and Lempel compression scheme. The description includes the use of a subword dictionary that is periodically reorganized based on information theory and structural linguistics principles. (29 references) (Author/CLB)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Storage Devices, Dictionaries, Information Theory, Statistical Distributions, Structural Linguistics

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