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We survey a new area of parameter-free similarity distance measures useful in data-mining, pattern recognition, learning and automatic semantics extraction. Given a family of distances on a set of objects, a distance is universal up to a…

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Measuring similarities between strings is central for many established and fast growing research areas including information retrieval, biology, and natural language processing. The traditional approach for string similarity measurements is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Mehdi Ben Lazreg , Morten Goodwin

An $(n,k)$ sequence covering array is a set of permutations of $[n]$ such that each sequence of $k$ distinct elements of $[n]$ is a subsequence of at least one of the permutations. An $(n,k)$ sequence covering array is perfect if there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Raphael Yuster

The semantic similarity between sample expressions measures the distance between their latent 'meaning'. These meanings are themselves typically represented by textual expressions. We propose a novel approach whereby the semantic similarity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Yu Liu , Stefano Soatto

We survey the emerging area of compression-based, parameter-free, similarity distance measures useful in data-mining, pattern recognition, learning and automatic semantics extraction. Given a family of distances on a set of objects, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rudi Cilibrasi , Paul Vitanyi

The following paper presents a method of comparing two sets of vectors. The method can be applied in all tasks, where it is necessary to measure the closeness of two objects presented as sets of vectors. It may be applicable when we compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Artem Artemov , Boris Alekseev

Sentence similarity is considered the basis of many natural language tasks such as information retrieval, question answering and text summarization. The semantic meaning between compared text fragments is based on the words semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Issa Atoum , Ahmed Otoom , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

We study here the so called subsequence pattern matching also known as hidden pattern matching in which one searches for a given pattern $w$ of length $m$ as a subsequence in a random text of length $n$. The quantity of interest is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Svante Janson , Wojciech Szpankowski

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

This paper presents a new approach to statistical similarity assessment based on sequence alignment. The algorithm performs mutual matching of two random sequences by successively searching for common elements and by applying sequence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Jakub Nikonowicz , Łukasz Matuszewski , Paweł Kubczak

Due to the high inter-class similarity caused by the complex composition and the co-existing objects across scenes, numerous studies have explored object semantic knowledge within scenes to improve scene recognition. However, a resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chuanxin Song , Hanbo Wu , Xin Ma , Yibin Li

Today, with the emergence of semantic web technologies and increasing of information quantity, searching for information based on the semantic web has become a fertile area of research. For this reason, a large number of studies are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Noreddine Gherabi , Abdelhadi Daoui , Abderrahim Marzouk

In recent years, semantic similarity measure has a great interest in Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Several similarity measures have been developed, being given the existence of a structured knowledge representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Thabet Slimani

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…

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We give an overview of different approaches to measuring the similarity of, or the distance between, two graphs, highlighting connections between these approaches. We also discuss the complexity of computing the distances.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Martin Grohe

Several measures exist for string similarity, including notable ones like the edit distance and the indel distance. The former measures the count of insertions, deletions, and substitutions required to transform one string into another,…

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We introduce the notion of Levenshtein graphs, an analog to Hamming graphs but using the edit distance instead of the Hamming distance; in particular, Levenshtein graphs allow for underlying strings (nodes) of different lengths. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Perrin E. Ruth , Manuel E. Lladser

This paper presents a new approach for measuring semantic similarity/distance between words and concepts. It combines a lexical taxonomy structure with corpus statistical information so that the semantic distance between nodes in the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Jay J. Jiang , David W. Conrath

A measure of similarity between text embeddings can be considered adequate only if it adheres to the human perception of similarity between texts. In this paper, we introduce the distance-to-distance ratio (DDR), a novel measure of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Abdullah Qureshi , Kenneth Rice , Alexander Wolpert

The problem of approximate string matching is important in many different areas such as computational biology, text processing and pattern recognition. A great effort has been made to design efficient algorithms addressing several variants…

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