Abstract
We study the edit-distance of regular tree languages. The edit-distance is a metric for measuring the similarity or dissimilarity between two objects, and a regular tree language is a set of trees accepted by a finite-state tree automaton or described by a regular tree grammar. Given two regular tree languages L and R, we define the edit-distance d(L,R) between L and R to be the minimum edit-distance between a tree t1 ∈ L and t2 ∈ R, respectively. Based on tree automata for L and R, we present a polynomial algorithm that computes d(L,R). We also suggest how to use the edit-distance between two tree languages for identifying a special common string between two context-free grammars.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Language and Automata Theory and Applications - 8th International Conference, LATA 2014, Proceedings |
| Pages | 466-477 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 8th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2014 - Madrid, Spain Duration: 2014 Mar 10 → 2014 Mar 14 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 8370 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
| Other | 8th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2014 |
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| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Madrid |
| Period | 14/3/10 → 14/3/14 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Ko and Han were supported by the Basic Science Research Program through NRF funded by MEST (2012R1A1A2044562), and Salomaa was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Grant OGP0147224.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)