@CONFERENCE\{IMM2007-04831, author = "P. Bille and R. Fagerberg and I. L. G{\o}rtz", title = "Improved Approximate String Matching and Regular Expression Matching on Ziv-Lempel Compressed Texts", year = "2007", month = "jul", pages = "52-62", booktitle = "Proc. 18th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching ({CPM} 2007)", volume = "4580", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", editor = "", publisher = "Springer", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4831-full.html", abstract = "In this paper we study the approximate string matching and regular expression matching problem for the case when the text to be searched is compressed with the Ziv-Lempel adaptive dictionary compression schemes. We present a time-space trade-off that leads to algorithms improving the previously known complexities for both problems. In particular, we significantly improve the space bounds. In practical applications the space is likely to be a bottleneck and therefore this is of crucial importance." }