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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2021.2
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-139534
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/13953/
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Koucký, Michal

Computing Edit Distance (Invited Talk)

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Abstract

The edit distance (or Levenshtein distance) between two strings x, y is the minimum number of character insertions, deletions, and substitutions needed to convert x into y. It has numerous applications in various fields from text processing to bioinformatics so algorithms for edit distance computation attract lot of attention. In this talk I will survey recent progress on computational aspects of edit distance in several contexts: computing edit distance approximately, sketching and computing it in streaming model, exchanging strings in communication complexity model, and building error correcting codes for edit distance. I will point out many problems that are still open in those areas.

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@InProceedings{koucky:LIPIcs.CPM.2021.2,
  author =	{Kouck\'{y}, Michal},
  title =	{{Computing Edit Distance}},
  booktitle =	{32nd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2021)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:1},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-186-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{191},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Starikovskaya, Tatiana},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/13953},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-139534},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2021.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: edit distance, streaming algorithms, approximation algorithms, sketching}
}

Keywords: edit distance, streaming algorithms, approximation algorithms, sketching
Collection: 32nd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 30.06.2021

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