New partially labelled tree similarity measure: a case study

  • Authors:
  • David Rizo;José M. Iñesta

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain;Dept. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

  • Venue:
  • SSPR&SPR'10 Proceedings of the 2010 joint IAPR international conference on Structural, syntactic, and statistical pattern recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Trees are a powerful data structure for representing data for which hierarchical relations can be defined. They have been applied in a number of fields like image analysis, natural language processing, protein structure, or music retrieval, to name a few. Procedures for comparing trees are very relevant in many task where tree representations are involved. The computation of these measures is usually a time consuming tasks and different authors have proposed algorithms that are able to compute them in a reasonable time, through approximated versions of the similarity measure. Other methods require that the trees are fully labelled for the distance to be computed. In this paper, a new measure is presented able to deal with trees labelled only at the leaves, that runs in O(|TA|×|TB|) time. Experiments and comparative results are provided.