Unique Word Abbreviation

An abbreviation of a word follows the form <first letter><number><last letter>. Below are some examples of word abbreviations:

a) it                      --> it    (no abbreviation)

     1
b) d|o|g                   --> d1g

              1    1  1
     1---5----0----5--8
c) i|nternationalizatio|n  --> i18n

              1
     1---5----0
d) l|ocalizatio|n          --> l10n

Assume you have a dictionary and given a word, find whether its abbreviation is unique in the dictionary. A word's abbreviation is unique if no other word from the dictionary has the same abbreviation.

Example: 

Given dictionary = [ "deer", "door", "cake", "card" ]

isUnique("dear") -> false
isUnique("cart") -> true
isUnique("cane") -> false
isUnique("make") -> true

 

Analyse: no other word from the dictionary has the same abbreviation means that if the dictionary includes that word, and the abbreviation of that word exist only once, then we should return true. hash_map + set

 

Analyse: hash_map, map the abbreviated word to its original word. If the the abbreviated word already exist in the hash map, and the value of it does not equals to the word itself, set it as empty. Otherwise, map the abbreviated and the original word. 

Runtime: 177ms

class ValidWordAbbr {
public:
    ValidWordAbbr(vector<string> &dictionary) {
        for (string word : dictionary) {
            string abbreviatedWord = getAbbreviate(word);
            // more than two words map to a single abbreviate word
            if (abbreviations[abbreviatedWord] != "" && abbreviations[abbreviatedWord] != word) 
                abbreviations[abbreviatedWord] = "";
            else
                abbreviations[abbreviatedWord] = word;
        }
    }

    bool isUnique(string word) {
         string abbreviatedWord = getAbbreviate(word);
         return abbreviations.count(abbreviatedWord) == 0 || abbreviations[abbreviatedWord] == word;
    }
    
private:
    unordered_map<string, string> abbreviations;
    
    string getAbbreviate(string word) {
        int n = word.size();
        if (n < 3) return word;
        else  return word[0] + to_string(n - 2) + word[n - 1];
    }
};


// Your ValidWordAbbr object will be instantiated and called as such:
// ValidWordAbbr vwa(dictionary);
// vwa.isUnique("hello");
// vwa.isUnique("anotherWord");

 

 

Analyse: hash_map + set

Runtime: 255ms

class ValidWordAbbr {
public:
    ValidWordAbbr(vector<string> &dictionary) {
        for (string word : dictionary)
            abbreviateAndOriginal[getAbbreviate(word)].insert(word);
    }

    bool isUnique(string word) {
        unordered_set<string> mapToMe = abbreviateAndOriginal[getAbbreviate(word)];
        if (mapToMe.empty()) return true;
        return mapToMe.size() == 1 && mapToMe.count(word) == 1;
    }
private:
    unordered_map<string, unordered_set<string> > abbreviateAndOriginal;
    
    string getAbbreviate(string word) {
        int n = word.size();
        if (n < 3) return word;
        else 
            return word[0] + to_string(n - 2) + word[n - 1];
    }
};

 

Analyse: two hash_map

Runtime: 233ms 

class ValidWordAbbr {
public:
    ValidWordAbbr(vector<string> &dictionary) {
        for (string word : dictionary) {
            if (!wordExist[word])
                abbreviations[getAbbreviation(word)]++;
            wordExist[word] = true;
        }
    }

    bool isUnique(string word) {
        return (wordExist[word] && abbreviations[getAbbreviation(word)] == 1) ||
               (!wordExist[word] && !abbreviations[getAbbreviation(word)]);
    }
private:
    unordered_map<string, bool> wordExist;
    unordered_map<string, int> abbreviations;
    
    string getAbbreviation(string word) {
        int n = word.size();
        if (n < 3) return word;
        else return word[0] + to_string(n - 2) + word[n - 1];
    }
};

 

Analyse: hash_map + vector

Runtime: 295ms

class ValidWordAbbr {
public:
    ValidWordAbbr(vector<string> &dictionary) {
        for (string word : dictionary) {
            string findMe = getAbbreviate(word);
            if (find(abbreviations[findMe].begin(), abbreviations[findMe].end(), word) == abbreviations[findMe].end())
                abbreviations[findMe].push_back(word);
        }
    }

    bool isUnique(string word) {
        vector<string> words = abbreviations[getAbbreviate(word)];
        return words.empty() ||
               (words.size() == 1 && words[0] == word);
               
    }
    
private:
    unordered_map<string, vector<string> > abbreviations;
    
    string getAbbreviate(string word) {
        int n = word.size();
        if (n < 3) return word;
        else  return word[0] + to_string(n - 2) + word[n - 1];
    }
};