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We study the following three problems of computing generic or discriminating words for a given collection of documents. Given a pattern P and a threshold d, we want to report (i) all longest extensions of P which occur in at least d documents, (ii) all shortest extensions of P which occur in less than d documents, and (iii) all shortest extensions of P which occur only in d selected documents. For these problems, we propose efficient algorithms based on suffix trees and using advanced data structure techniques. For problem (i), we propose an optimal solution with constant running time per output word.
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Kucherov, G., Nekrich, Y., Starikovskaya, T. (2012). Computing Discriminating and Generic Words. In: Calderón-Benavides, L., González-Caro, C., Chávez, E., Ziviani, N. (eds) String Processing and Information Retrieval. SPIRE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7608. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34109-0_32
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