A fast string searching algorithm

1977 · Communications of the ACM · 2,299 citations · 2 from inside this corpus

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Efficient string matching	1975	2,965
Fast Pattern Matching in Strings	1977	2,961

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
A guided tour to approximate string matching	2001	2,586
Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms	1992	2,431

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Topics

Algorithms and Data Compression	Computer Science
semigroups and automata theory	Computer Science
Natural Language Processing Techniques	Computer Science

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