Observing that current Global Similarity Measures (GSM) which average the effect of few significant differences on all dimensions may cause possible performance limitation, we prop...
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Dawei Song, Xue Li, Stefa...
Finding the best matching database target to a melodic query has been of great interest in the music IR world. The string alignment paradigm works well for this task when comparin...
Text search engines return a set of k documents ranked by similarity to a query. Typically, documents and queries are drawn from natural language text, which can readily be partiti...
J. Shane Culpepper, Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Pugl...
We study the following problem: how to efficiently find in a collection of strings those similar to a given query string? Various similarity functions can be used, such as edit dis...
The number of Web-databases has exploded during the last years. In order to justify the development of new information resources, it is essential to know if the use of existing re...