Burst Edit Distance

Itai Boneh, Shay Golan, Avivit Levy, Ely Porat, B. Riva Shalom

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Abstract

In this paper we define two types of burst edit errors that occur in Text Editing scenarios when the communication speed is unstable within a wireless keyboard usage: (1) A Burst of Errors (BE) involves a sequence of erroneous identical symbols and allows a single edit operation applied to a sequence of identical symbols; (2) A Burst of Operations (BO) involves a sequence of erroneous symbols that are not necessarily identical and allows a single edit operation applied to a sequence of symbols. In both burst types, every burst operation has a penalty, which is a cost function F(k), where k is the burst length. The burst edit distance of two strings S and T is: (1) The minimum cost of a sequence of BE operations that transforms S into T in the bursts of errors variant (EDBE); (2) The minimum cost of a sequence of BO operations that transforms S into T in the bursts of operations variant (EDBO). We describe solutions to both problems for general natural penalty functions families. A conditional lower bound for the EDBE problem is also given. The K-bounded versions of the problems are considered as well.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationString Processing and Information Retrieval - 31st International Symposium, SPIRE 2024, Proceedings
EditorsZsuzsanna Lipták, Edleno Moura, Karina Figueroa, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages41-56
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783031721991
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Event31st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2024 - Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Duration: 23 Sep 202425 Sep 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14899 LNCS

Conference

Conference31st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2024
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityPuerto Vallarta
Period23/09/2425/09/24

Keywords

  • Burst Errors
  • Edit Distance
  • String Similarity

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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