Encyclopedia of Algorithms

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Approximate Regular Expression Matching

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27848-8_22-2
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Years and Authors of Summarized Original Work

1995; Wu, Manber, Myers

Problem Definition

Given a text stringT = \(t_{1}t_{2}\ldots t_{n}\)

Keywords

Regular expression matching allowing errors or differences 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of ChileSantiagoChile