Unstructured Data Bases or Very Efficient Text Searching

Summary: Algorithms for searching massive unstructured text DBs: some operate directly on raw text, others use preprocessing to achieve logarithmic-time queries. Introduces compact signature functions to handle misspellings, variants, positional info and efficient plagiarism detection. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 650
Venue: PODS
Year: 1983
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,501 | 0.51%
DOI: 10.1145/588058.588074

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Authors

1. Gaston H. Gonnet (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gonnet_pods83,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '83},
        title = {{Unstructured Data Bases or Very Efficient Text Searching}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588058.588074},
        doi = {10.1145/588058.588074},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Gonnet, Gaston H.},
        year = {1983}
}

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