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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Paolo Ferragina, Igor Nitto & Rossano Venturini

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  1. Paolo Ferragina
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computing Science, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Mario A. Nascimento

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Ferragina, P., Nitto, I., Venturini, R. (2018). Text Compression. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1151

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