Title
siEDM: An Efficient String Index and Search Algorithm for Edit Distance with Moves.
Abstract
Although several self-indexes for highly repetitive text collections exist, developing an index and search algorithm with editing operations remains a challenge. Edit distance with moves (EDM) is a string-to-string distance measure that includes substring moves in addition to ordinal editing operations to turn one string into another. Although the problem of computing EDM is intractable, it has a wide range of potential applications, especially in approximate string retrieval. Despite the importance of computing EDM, there has been no efficient method for indexing and searching large text collections based on the EDM measure. We propose the first algorithm, named string index for edit distance with moves (siEDM), for indexing and searching strings with EDM. The siEDM algorithm builds an index structure by leveraging the idea behind the edit sensitive parsing (ESP), an efficient algorithm enabling approximately computing EDM with guarantees of upper and lower bounds for the exact EDM. siEDM efficiently prunes the space for searching query strings by the proposed method, which enables fast query searches with the same guarantee as ESP. We experimentally tested the ability of siEDM to index and search strings on benchmark datasets, and we showed siEDM's efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/a9020026
ALGORITHMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
edit distance with moves,self-index,grammar-based self-index,string index for edit-distance with moves
Journal
9
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
2
0.52
References 
Authors
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yoshimasa Takabatake1297.27
Kenta Nakashima220.52
Tetsuji Kuboyama314029.36
Yasuo Tabei421519.46
Hiroshi Sakamoto5476.63