You need to design a system to find the top 10 most frequent words in a very large text corpus. Which data structures and algorithms would you use to ensure efficiency in both space and time?
- A) Array and Selection Sort
- B) Hash Map and Quick Sort
- C) Trie and Merge Sort
- D) Priority Queue (Heap) and Trie
To efficiently find the top 10 most frequent words, you should use a Priority Queue (Heap) to keep track of the top frequencies and a Trie or Hash Map to count word occurrences. A Trie can be used to efficiently store and retrieve words, while a Priority Queue helps maintain the top frequencies. The other options are less efficient in terms of both time and space complexity.
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