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Edit distance

In computational linguistics and computer science, edit distance is a string metric, i.e. a way of quantifying how dissimilar two strings (e.g., words) are to one another, that is measured by counting the minimum number of operations required to transform one string into the other. Edit distances find applications in natural language processing, where…

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Types of edit distance

Formal definition and properties

Computation

Applications

Language edit distance

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Edit distance

Nodes48
Edges47
Triples46
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.041667
Components1

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Edit distance

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related to Improved algorithms · 11
Edit distance → Fisher, Further, Improving, It, Landau, Myers, Schmidt, Space, This, Ukkonen, Wagner
related to Language edit distance · 9
Edit distance → Aho, For, Instead, Language, More, Optimum Stack Generation, Peterson, RNA, When
related to Types of edit distance · 7
Edit distance → Different, DNA, For, Smith, Some, This, Waterman
related to Formal definition and properties · 5
Edit distance → ASCII, Given, In Levenshtein's, Levenshtein, One
has application · 3
Edit distance → Edit, OCR, Various
is a · 2
Edit distance → minimum edit distance that can be attained between a fixed string and any string taken from a set of strings, string metric
related to Common algorithm · 2
Edit distance → This, Using Levenshtein's
related to Computation · 2
Edit distance → Damerau, The
related to Properties · 2
Edit distance → Edit, Every
see also · 2
Edit distance → Graph, Warp Edit Distance

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Important terminology

distance edit operations strings algorithm string levenshtein metric language cost two common time used applications defined set lcs dynamic programming

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Edit distanceis astring metric0.90text
Edit distanceis aminimum edit distance that can be attained between a fixed string and any string taken from a set of strings0.90text
the Smithinstance ofThis is further generalized by DNA sequence alignment algorithms0.80text
Edit distancehas applicationEdit0.60section
Edit distancehas applicationOCR0.60section
Edit distancehas applicationVarious0.60section
Edit distancerelated to Common algorithmUsing Levenshtein's0.60section
Edit distancerelated to Common algorithmThis0.60section
Edit distancerelated to ComputationThe0.60section
Edit distancerelated to ComputationDamerau0.60section
Edit distancerelated to Formal definition and propertiesGiven0.60section
Edit distancerelated to Formal definition and propertiesASCII0.60section

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