Faster algorithms for guided tree edit distance

  • Authors:
  • Dekel Tsur

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The guided tree edit distance problem is to find a minimum cost series of edit operations that transforms two input forests F and G into isomorphic forests F^' and G^' such that a third input forest H is included in F^' (and G^'). The edit operations are relabeling a vertex and deleting a vertex. We show efficient algorithms for this problem that are faster than the previous algorithm for this problem of Peng and Ting [Z. Peng, H. Ting, Guided forest edit distance: Better structure comparisons by using domain-knowledge, in: Proc. 18th Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM), 2007, pp. 28-39].