Parsing Without a Grammar: Making Sense of Unknown File Formats

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Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03)

Melbourne, Florida

November 19-November 22

ISBN: 0-7695-1978-4

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	Levon Lloyd, Steven Skiena, "Parsing Without a Grammar: Making Sense of Unknown File Formats," Data Mining, IEEE International Conference on, pp. 195, Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03), 2003.

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	@article{ 10.1109/ICDM.2003.1250920, author = {Levon Lloyd and Steven Skiena}, title = {Parsing Without a Grammar: Making Sense of Unknown File Formats}, journal ={Data Mining, IEEE International Conference on}, volume = {0}, year = {2003}, isbn = {0-7695-1978-4}, pages = {195}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDM.2003.1250920}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Data Mining, IEEE International Conference on TI - Parsing Without a Grammar: Making Sense of Unknown File Formats SN - 0-7695-1978-4 SP EP A1 - Levon Lloyd, A1 - Steven Skiena, PY - 2003 KW - null VL - 0 JA - Data Mining, IEEE International Conference on ER -

Levon Lloyd, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Steven Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDM.2003.1250920

The thousands of specialized structured file formats in use today present a substantial barrier to freely exchanging information between applications programs. We consider the problem of deducing such basic features as the whitespace characters, bracketing delimiter symbols, and self-delimiter characters of a given file format from one or more example files. We demonstrate that for sufficiently large example files, we can typically identify the basic features of interest.

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Levon Lloyd, Steven Skiena, "Parsing Without a Grammar: Making Sense of Unknown File Formats," icdm, pp.195, Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'03), 2003

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