Improving Text Compression Ratios with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform

Authors:
Holger Kruse;Amar Mukherjee
Affiliations:
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Venue:
DCC '99 Proceedings of the Conference on Data Compression
Year:
1999

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Abstract

In this paper we describe several methods that can be used to improve the compression ratio of compression algorithms based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, as implemented in `bzip2', when used in combination with English language text files.