Replace or Retrieve Keywords In Documents at Scale
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Publication:104175
DOI10.48550/ARXIV.1711.00046arXiv1711.00046MaRDI QIDQ104175
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Publication date: 31 October 2017
Abstract: In this paper we introduce, the FlashText algorithm for replacing keywords or finding keywords in a given text. FlashText can search or replace keywords in one pass over a document. The time complexity of this algorithm is not dependent on the number of terms being searched or replaced. For a document of size N (characters) and a dictionary of M keywords, the time complexity will be O(N). This algorithm is much faster than Regex, because regex time complexity is O(MxN). It is also different from Aho Corasick Algorithm, as it doesn't match substrings. FlashText is designed to only match complete words (words with boundary characters on both sides). For an input dictionary of {Apple}, this algorithm won't match it to 'I like Pineapple'. This algorithm is also designed to go for the longest match first. For an input dictionary {Machine, Learning, Machine learning} on a string 'I like Machine learning', it will only consider the longest match, which is Machine Learning. We have made python implementation of this algorithm available as open-source on GitHub, released under the permissive MIT License.
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