@InProceedings{loukides_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2021.64, author = {Loukides, Grigorios and Pissis, Solon P.}, title = {{Bidirectional String Anchors: A New String Sampling Mechanism}}, booktitle = {29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)}, pages = {64:1--64:21}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-204-4}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {204}, editor = {Mutzel, Petra and Pagh, Rasmus and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.64}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146456}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.64}, annote = {Keywords: string algorithms, string sampling, text indexing, top-K similarity search} }