Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dong Deng
• Guoliang Li
• Jianhua Feng
• Wen-Syan Li

Titel

Top-k string similarity search with edit-distance constraints

Ist Teil von

• 2013 IEEE 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2013, p.925-936

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

• IEEE_Xplore

Quelle

IEL

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• String similarity search is a fundamental operation in many areas, such as data cleaning, information retrieval, and bioinformatics. In this paper we study the problem of top-k string similarity search with edit-distance constraints, which, given a collection of strings and a query string, returns the top-k strings with the smallest edit distances to the query string. Existing methods usually try different edit-distance thresholds and select an appropriate threshold to find top-k answers. However it is rather expensive to select an appropriate threshold. To address this problem, we propose a progressive framework by improving the traditional dynamic-programming algorithm to compute edit distance. We prune unnecessary entries in the dynamic-programming matrix and only compute those pivotal entries. We extend our techniques to support top-k similarity search. We develop a range-based method by grouping the pivotal entries to avoid duplicated computations. Experimental results show that our method achieves high performance, and significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on real-world datasets.