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Project name

marisa-trie

Project summary

MARISA: Matching Algorithm with Recursively Implemented StorAge

Latest version

0.2.6

Description

Matching Algorithm with Recursively Implemented StorAge (MARISA) is a static and space-efficient trie data structure. And libmarisa is a C++ library to provide an implementation of MARISA. Also, the package of libmarisa contains a set of command line tools for building and operating a MARISA-based dictionary.

A MARISA-based dictionary supports not only lookup but also reverse lookup, common prefix search and predictive search.

• Lookup is to check whether or not a given string exists in a dictionary.
• Reverse lookup is to restore a key from its ID.
• Common prefix search is to find keys from prefixes of a given string.
• Predictive search is to find keys starting with a given string.

The biggest advantage of libmarisa is that its dictionary size is considerably more compact than others. See below for the dictionary size of other implementations.

• Input
  • Source: enwiki-20121101-all-titles-in-ns0.gz
  • Contents: all page titles of English Wikipedia (Nov. 2012)
  • Number of keys: 9,805,576
  • Total size: 200,435,403 bytes (plain) / 54,933,690 bytes (gzipped)

Documentation

• README (English): https://www.s-yata.jp/marisa-trie/docs/readme.en.html
• README (Japanese): https://www.s-yata.jp/marisa-trie/docs/readme.ja.html

Build instructions

You can get the latest version via git clone. Then, you can generate a configure script via autoreconf -i. After that, you can build and install libmarisa and its command line tools via configure and make. For details, see also documentation in docs.

$ git clone https://github.com/s-yata/marisa-trie.git
$ cd marisa-trie
$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure --enable-native-code
$ make
$ make install

Source code license

• The BSD 2-clause License
• The LGPL 2.1 or any later version