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RECOMB
2002
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
String barcoding: uncovering optimal virus signatures
There are many critical situations when one needs to rapidly identify an unidentified pathogen from among a given set of previously sequenced pathogens. DNA or RNA hybridization c...
Sam Rash, Dan Gusfield
JUCS
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
On the Linear Number of Matching Substrings
Abstract: We study the number of matching substrings in the pattern matching problem. In general, there can be a quadratic number of matching substrings in the size of a given text...
Yo-Sub Han
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MFCS
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Explicit Inapproximability Bounds for the Shortest Superstring Problem
Abstract. Given a set of strings S = {s1, . . . , sn}, the Shortest Superstring problem asks for the shortest string s which contains each si as a substring. We consider two measur...
Virginia Vassilevska
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ACL
2012
12 years 12 months ago
Machine Translation without Words through Substring Alignment
In this paper, we demonstrate that accurate machine translation is possible without the concept of “words,” treating MT as a problem of transformation between character string...
Graham Neubig, Taro Watanabe, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsu...
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FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
On the Optimality of the Dimensionality Reduction Method
We investigate the optimality of (1+ )-approximation algorithms obtained via the dimensionality reduction method. We show that: • Any data structure for the (1 + )-approximate n...
Alexandr Andoni, Piotr Indyk, Mihai Patrascu