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RE-tree: an efficient index structure for regular expressions

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Author	Chan, Chee Yong Garofalakis, Mis Rastogi, Rajeev
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	Due to their expressive power, regular expressions (REs) are quickly becoming an integral part of language specifications for several important application scenarios. Many of these applications have to manage huge databases of RE specifications and need to provide an effective matching mechanism that, given an input string, quickly identifies the REs in the database that match it. In this paper, we propose the RE-tree, a novel index structure for large databases of RE specifications. Given an input query string, the RE-tree speeds up the retrieval of matching REs by focusing the search and comparing the input string with only a small fraction of REs in the database. Even though the RE-tree is similar in spirit to other tree-based structures that have been proposed for indexing multidimensional data, RE indexing is significantly more challenging since REs typically represent infinite sets of strings with no well-defined notion of spatial locality. To address these new challenges, our RE-tree index structure relies on novel measures for comparing the relative sizes of infinite regular languages. We also propose innovative solutions for the various RE-tree operations including the effective splitting of RE-tree nodes and computing a "tight" bounding RE for a collection of REs. Finally, we demonstrate how sampling-based approximation algorithms can be used to significantly speed up the performance of RE-tree operations. Preliminary experimental results with moderately large synthetic data sets indicate that the RE-tree is effective in pruning the search space and easily outperforms naive sequential search approaches.
Starting Page	102
Ending Page	119
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10668888
Journal	The VLDB Journal
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	0949877X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Regular expressions Index structure Size measures Sampling-based approximations
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Hardware and Architecture

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