The edit distance (or Levenshtein distance) between two words is the smallest number of substitutions, insertions, and deletions of symbols that can be used to transform one of the...
We consider the Edit distance with moves on the class of words and the class of ordered trees. We first exhibit a simple tester for the class of regular languages on words and gen...
Abstract. A (combinatorial) channel consists of pairs of words representing all possible inputoutput channel situations. In a past paper, we formalized the intuitive concept of “...
Several mathematical distances between probabilistic languages have been investigated in the literature, motivated by applications in language modeling, computational biology, syn...
: We study additive distances and quasi-distances between words. We show that every additive distance is finite. We then prove that every additive quasi-distance is regularity-pres...