• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.3
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• pp.311-316
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• 2002

LZW is a popular variant of LZ78 to compress text documents. LZW yields a high compression rate and is widely used by many commercial programs. Its core idea is to assign most probably used character group an entry in a dictionary. If a group of character which is already positioned in a dictionary appears in the streaming data, then an index of a dictionary is replaced in the position of character group. In this paper, we propose a new efficient method to find least used entries in a dictionary using counter. We also achieve higher compression rate by preassigning widely used tags in hyper-text documents. Experimental results show that the proposed method is more effective than V.42bis and Unix compression method. It gives 3∼8％ better in the standard Calgary Corpus and 23∼24％ better in HTML documents.