A bisection algorithm for grammar-based compression of ordered trees

  • Authors:
  • Tatsuya Akutsu

  • Affiliations:
  • Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider grammar-based compression for rooted ordered trees. For that purpose, we define an elementary ordered tree grammar (EOTG) by extending CFG, and then present a polynomial time algorithm which approximates the smallest EOTG within a factor of O(n^5^/^6). We also show that the grammar and algorithm can be modified for unordered trees of bounded degree.