String correction using the Damerau-Levenshtein distance

Abstract Background In the string correction problem, we are to transform one string into another using a set of prescribed edit operations. In string correction using the Damerau-Levenshtein (DL) distance, the permissible edit operations are: substitution, insertion, deletion and transposition. Sev...

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Main Authors: Chunchun Zhao, Sartaj Sahni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-2819-0