Extending the edit distance using frequencies of common characters

Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad, Pierre François Marteau

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    Abstract

    Similarity search of time series has attracted many researchers recently. In this scope, reducing the dimensionality of data is required to scale up the similarity search. Symbolic representation is a promising technique of dimensionality reduction, since it allows researchers to benefit from the richness of algorithms used for textual databases. To improve the effectiveness of similarity search we propose in this paper an extension to the edit distance that we call the extended edit distance. This new distance is applied to symbolic sequential data objects, and we test it on time series data bases in classification task experiments. We also prove that our distance is a metric.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDatabase and Expert Systems Applications - 19th International Conference, DEXA 2008, Proceedings
    EditorsSourav S Bhowmick, Josef Kung, Roland Wagner
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages150-157
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-85654-2
    ISBN (Print)978-3-540-85653-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 7 Oct 2008
    Event19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2008 - Turin, Italy
    Duration: 1 Sept 20085 Sept 2008

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume5181 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2008
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityTurin
    Period1/09/085/09/08

    Keywords

    • Symbolic Representation
    • The Edit Distance
    • Time Series

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Theoretical Computer Science
    • General Computer Science

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