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  2. Approximate string matching - Wikipedia

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    The closeness of a match is measured in terms of the number of primitive operations necessary to convert the string into an exact match. This number is called the edit distance between the string and the pattern. The usual primitive operations are: [1] insertion: cot → coat; deletion: coat → cot

  3. Trigram search - Wikipedia

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    Trigram search is a method of searching for text when the exact syntax or spelling of the target object is not precisely known [1] or when queries may be regular expressions. [2] It finds objects which match the maximum number of three consecutive character strings (i.e. trigrams ) in the entered search terms, which are generally near matches ...

  4. Edit distance - Wikipedia

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    Edit distance finds applications in computational biology and natural language processing, e.g. the correction of spelling mistakes or OCR errors, and approximate string matching, where the objective is to find matches for short strings in many longer texts, in situations where a small number of differences is to be expected.

  5. Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm - Wikipedia

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    This uses information gleaned during the pre-processing of the pattern in conjunction with suffix match lengths recorded at each match attempt. Storing suffix match lengths requires an additional table equal in size to the text being searched. The Raita algorithm improves the performance of Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm. The searching ...

  6. Lookup table - Wikipedia

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    In 493 AD, Victorius of Aquitaine wrote a 98-column multiplication table which gave (in Roman numerals) the product of every number from 2 to 50 times and the rows were "a list of numbers starting with one thousand, descending by hundreds to one hundred, then descending by tens to ten, then by ones to one, and then the fractions down to 1/144 ...

  7. Search data structure - Wikipedia

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    The simplest kind of query is to locate a record that has a specific field (the key) equal to a specified value v.Other common kinds of query are "find the item with smallest (or largest) key value", "find the item with largest key value not exceeding v", "find all items with key values between specified bounds v min and v max".

  8. Fuzzy matching (computer-assisted translation) - Wikipedia

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    When an exact match cannot be found in the TM database for the text being translated, there is an option to search for a match that is less than exact; the translator sets the threshold of the fuzzy match to a percentage value less than 100%, and the database will then return any matches in its memory corresponding to that percentage.

  9. Search engine indexing - Wikipedia

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    The average number of characters in any given word on a page may be estimated at 5 (Wikipedia:Size comparisons) Given this scenario, an uncompressed index (assuming a non-conflated, simple, index) for 2 billion web pages would need to store 500 billion word entries. At 1 byte per character, or 5 bytes per word, this would require 2500 gigabytes ...