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Properties of homogeneous segment sets are investigated in this paper. A universal characterization of homogeneous sets is preented in the form of a polynomial algorithm which decides whether or not a set S is homogeneous with respect to S *. It is shown that any set of homogeneous segments can be reduced to the uniquely determined minimal base and a polynomial algorithm solving this task is presented as well. Further, an efficient algorithm for finding the segment representation of a word by homogeneous segments is provided.
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Batůšek, R., Kopeček, I., Kučera, A. (2003). On Homogeneous Segments. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39398-6_22
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