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The subject of this paper is to study conformance checking for timed models, that is, process models that consider both the sequence of events in a process as well as the timestamps at which each event is recorded. Time-aware process mining…

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Existing methods to measure sentence similarity are faced with two challenges: (1) labeled datasets are usually limited in size, making them insufficient to train supervised neural models; (2) there is a training-test gap for unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Xiang Ao , Fei Wu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li , Chun Fan

Data of sequential nature arise in many application domains in forms of, e.g. textual data, DNA sequences, and software execution traces. Different research disciplines have developed methods to learn sequence models from such datasets: (i)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Niek Tax , Irene Teinemaa , Sebastiaan J. van Zelst

Tasks that model the relation between pairs of tokens in a string are a vital part of understanding natural language. Such tasks, in general, require exhaustive pair-wise comparisons of tokens, thus having a quadratic runtime complexity in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Tianyu Liu , Afra Amini , Mrinmaya Sachan , Ryan Cotterell

Sequence-to-sequence learning with neural networks has become the de facto standard for sequence prediction tasks. This approach typically models the local distribution over the next word with a powerful neural network that can condition on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yoon Kim

String matching algorithm plays the vital role in the Computational Biology. The functional and structural relationship of the biological sequence is determined by similarities on that sequence. For that, the researcher is supposed to aware…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Pandiselvam. P , Marimuthu. T , Lawrance. R

A {\em subsequence} of a word $w$ is a word $u$ that can be obtained by deleting some letters from $w$ while maintaining the relative order of the remaining letters, e.g., $\mathtt{lala}$ is a subsequence of $\mathtt{alfalfa}$. A word, over…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Duncan Adamson , Pamela Fleischmann , Annika Huch , Florin Manea , Paul Sarnighausen-Cahn , Max Wiedenhöft

In this paper we show the usability of the Gray code with constant weight words for computing linear combinations of codewords. This can lead to a big improvement of the computation time for finding the minimum distance of a code. We have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Nikolay Yankov , Krassimir Enev

Linear regression without correspondences is the problem of performing a linear regression fit to a dataset for which the correspondences between the independent samples and the observations are unknown. Such a problem naturally arises in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Manolis C. Tsakiris , Liangzu Peng , Aldo Conca , Laurent Kneip , Yuanming Shi , Hayoung Choi

Various approaches to alignment-free sequence comparison are based on the length of exact or inexact word matches between two input sequences. Haubold {\em et al.} (2009) showed how the average number of substitutions between two DNA…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-06 Burkhard Morgenstern , Svenja Schöbel , Chris-André Leimeister

Pattern matching is a fundamental process in almost every scientific domain. The problem involves finding the positions of a given pattern (usually of short length) in a reference stream of data (usually of large length). The matching can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Anas Al-okaily , Abdelghani Tbakhi

A classical measure of string comparison is given by the longest common subsequence (LCS) problem on a pair of strings. We consider its generalisation, called the semi-local LCS problem, which arises naturally in many string-related…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alexander Tiskin

Comparing time series is essential in various tasks such as clustering and classification. While elastic distance measures that allow warping provide a robust quantitative comparison, a qualitative comparison on top of them is missing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Simiao Lin , Wannes Meert , Pieter Robberechts , Hendrik Blockeel

This study is to review the approaches used for measuring sentences similarity. Measuring similarity between natural language sentences is a crucial task for many Natural Language Processing applications such as text classification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Mamdouh Farouk

Within bioinformatics, the textual alignment of amino acid sequences has long dominated the determination of similarity between proteins, with all that implies for shared structure, function and evolutionary descent. Despite the relative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-10 Amit K Chattopadhyay , Diar Nasiev , Darren R Flower

The paper considers various formalisms based on Automata, Temporal Logic and Regular Expressions for specifying queries over sequences. Unlike traditional binary semantics, the paper presents a similarity based semantics for thse…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Prasad Sistla

Most words have several senses and connotations which evolve in time due to semantic shift, so that closely related words may gain different or even opposite meanings over the years. This evolution is very relevant to the study of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Jean-François Delpech

We investigate how to determine whether the states of a set of quantum systems are identical or not. This paper treats both error-free comparison, and comparison where errors in the result are allowed. Error-free comparison means that we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Igor Jex , Erika Andersson , Anthony Chefles

This paper describes a method to efficiently retrieve protein database sequences similar to a query sequence, while allowing for significant numbers of mutations. We call this method SEQR for SEQuence Retrieval. This approach increases the…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-05 David I. Hurwitz , Lianyi Han , Lewis Y. Geer

Genetic information is encoded in a linear sequence of nucleotides, represented by letters ranging from thousands to billions. Mutations refer to changes in the DNA or RNA nucleotide sequence. Thus, mutation detection is vital in all areas…