Word Break

• tags: [DP_Sequence]

Question

• leetcode: Word Break | LeetCode OJ
• lintcode: (107) Word Break

Given a string s and a dictionary of words dict, determine if s can be
segmented into a space-separated sequence of one or more dictionary words.

For example, given
s = "leetcode",
dict = ["leet", "code"].

Return true because "leetcode" can be segmented as "leet code".

题解

单序列(DP_Sequence) DP 题，由单序列动态规划的四要素可大致写出：

1. State: f[i] 表示前i个字符能否根据词典中的词被成功分词。
2. Function: f[i] = or{f[j], j < i, letter in [j+1, i] can be found in dict}, 含义为小于i的索引j中只要有一个f[j]为真且j+1到i中组成的字符能在词典中找到时，f[i]即为真，否则为假。具体实现可分为自顶向下或者自底向上。
3. Initialization: f[0] = true, 数组长度为字符串长度 + 1，便于处理。
4. Answer: f[s.length]

考虑到单词长度通常不会太长，故在s较长时使用自底向上效率更高。

Python

class Solution:
    # @param s, a string
    # @param wordDict, a set<string>
    # @return a boolean
    def wordBreak(self, s, wordDict):
        if not s:
            return True
        if not wordDict:
            return False

        max_word_len = max([len(w) for w in wordDict])
        can_break = [True]
        for i in xrange(len(s)):
            can_break.append(False)
            for j in xrange(i, -1, -1):
                # optimize for too long interval
                if i - j + 1 > max_word_len:
                    break
                if can_break[j] and s[j:i + 1] in wordDict:
                    can_break[i + 1] = True
                    break
        return can_break[-1]

C++

class Solution {
public:
    bool wordBreak(string s, unordered_set<string>& wordDict) {
        if (s.empty()) return true;
        if (wordDict.empty()) return false;

        // get the max word length of wordDict
        int max_word_len = 0;
        for (unordered_set<string>::iterator it = wordDict.begin();
         it != wordDict.end(); ++it) {

            max_word_len = max(max_word_len, (*it).size());
        }

        vector<bool> can_break(s.size() + 1, false);
        can_break[0] = true;
        for (int i = 1; i <= s.size(); ++i) {
            for (int j = i - 1; j >= 0; --j) {
                // optimize for too long interval
                if (i - j > max_word_len) break;

                if (can_break[j] && 
            wordDict.find(s.substr(j, i - j)) != wordDict.end()) {

                    can_break[i] = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        return can_break[s.size()];
    }
};

Java

public class Solution {
    public boolean wordBreak(String s, Set<String> wordDict) {
        if (s == null || s.length() == 0) return true;
        if (wordDict == null || wordDict.isEmpty()) return false;

        // get the max word length of wordDict
        int max_word_len = 0;
        for (String word : wordDict) {
            max_word_len = Math.max(max_word_len, word.length());
        }

        boolean[] can_break = new boolean[s.length() + 1];
        can_break[0] = true;
        for (int i = 1; i <= s.length(); i++) {
            for (int j = i - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
                // optimize for too long interval
                if (i - j > max_word_len) break;

                String word = s.substring(j, i);
                if (can_break[j] && wordDict.contains(word)) {
                    can_break[i] = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        return can_break[s.length()];
    }
}

源码分析

Python 之类的动态语言无需初始化指定大小的数组，使用时下标i比 C++和 Java 版的程序少1。使用自底向上的方法求解状态转移，首先遍历一次词典求得单词最大长度以便后续优化。

复杂度分析

1. 求解词典中最大单词长度，时间复杂度为词典长度乘上最大单词长度 $O(L_D \cdot L_w)$
2. 词典中找单词的时间复杂度为 $O(1)$(哈希表结构)
3. 两重 for 循环，内循环在超出最大单词长度时退出，故最坏情况下两重 for 循环的时间复杂度为 $O(n L_w)$.
4. 故总的时间复杂度近似为 $O(n L_w)$.
5. 使用了与字符串长度几乎等长的布尔数组和临时单词word，空间复杂度近似为 $O(n)$.