A method and system for fast indexing and searching of text in compound-word languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, and Arabic. Computer codings of such compound-word languages often contain different character types, e.g. the shift-JIS coding of Japanese represents kanji, katakana, hiragana,...http://www.google.ca/patents/US5778361?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5778361 - Method and system for fast indexing and searching of text in compound-word languages 
