Levenshtein distance

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf string metric
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs edit distance
gptkbp:category gptkb:information_theory
gptkb:mathematics
computer science
gptkbp:complexity O(mn)
gptkbp:editTypes deletion
insertion
substitution
gptkbp:generalizes gptkb:Hamming_distance
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Levenshtein distance
gptkbp:introducedIn 1965
gptkbp:measures minimum number of single-character edits required to change one word into another
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Vladimir_Levenshtein
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Damerau-Levenshtein_distance
gptkb:Jaro-Winkler_distance
gptkbp:usedIn information retrieval
natural language processing
spell checking
DNA sequence analysis
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Hamming_distance
gptkb:Hamming_metric
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5