Burst Edit Distance

Itai Boneh; Shay Golan; Avivit Levy; Ely Porat; B. Riva Shalom

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-72200-4_4

Burst Edit Distance

Itai Boneh, Shay Golan, Avivit Levy, Ely Porat, B. Riva Shalom

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Abstract

In this paper we define two types of burst edit errors that occur in Text Editing scenarios when the communication speed is unstable within a wireless keyboard usage: (1) A Burst of Errors (BE) involves a sequence of erroneous identical symbols and allows a single edit operation applied to a sequence of identical symbols; (2) A Burst of Operations (BO) involves a sequence of erroneous symbols that are not necessarily identical and allows a single edit operation applied to a sequence of symbols. In both burst types, every burst operation has a penalty, which is a cost function F(k), where k is the burst length. The burst edit distance of two strings S and T is: (1) The minimum cost of a sequence of BE operations that transforms S into T in the bursts of errors variant (EDBE); (2) The minimum cost of a sequence of BO operations that transforms S into T in the bursts of operations variant (EDBO). We describe solutions to both problems for general natural penalty functions families. A conditional lower bound for the EDBE problem is also given. The K-bounded versions of the problems are considered as well.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	String Processing and Information Retrieval - 31st International Symposium, SPIRE 2024, Proceedings
Editors	Zsuzsanna Lipták, Edleno Moura, Karina Figueroa, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	41-56
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783031721991
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72200-4_4
State	Published - 2025
Event	31st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2024 - Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Duration: 23 Sep 2024 → 25 Sep 2024

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	14899 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	31st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2024
Country/Territory	Mexico
City	Puerto Vallarta
Period	23/09/24 → 25/09/24

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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

Keywords

Burst Errors
Edit Distance
String Similarity

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Boneh, I., Golan, S., Levy, A., Porat, E., & Shalom, B. R. (2025). Burst Edit Distance. In Z. Lipták, E. Moura, K. Figueroa, & R. Baeza-Yates (Eds.), String Processing and Information Retrieval - 31st International Symposium, SPIRE 2024, Proceedings (pp. 41-56). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14899 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72200-4_4

Boneh, Itai ; Golan, Shay ; Levy, Avivit et al. / Burst Edit Distance. String Processing and Information Retrieval - 31st International Symposium, SPIRE 2024, Proceedings. editor / Zsuzsanna Lipták ; Edleno Moura ; Karina Figueroa ; Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. pp. 41-56 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Boneh, I, Golan, S, Levy, A, Porat, E & Shalom, BR 2025, Burst Edit Distance. in Z Lipták, E Moura, K Figueroa & R Baeza-Yates (eds), String Processing and Information Retrieval - 31st International Symposium, SPIRE 2024, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14899 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 41-56, 31st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2024, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 23/09/24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72200-4_4

Burst Edit Distance. / Boneh, Itai; Golan, Shay; Levy, Avivit et al.
String Processing and Information Retrieval - 31st International Symposium, SPIRE 2024, Proceedings. ed. / Zsuzsanna Lipták; Edleno Moura; Karina Figueroa; Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. p. 41-56 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14899 LNCS).

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Boneh I, Golan S, Levy A, Porat E, Shalom BR. Burst Edit Distance. In Lipták Z, Moura E, Figueroa K, Baeza-Yates R, editors, String Processing and Information Retrieval - 31st International Symposium, SPIRE 2024, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2025. p. 41-56. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-72200-4_4

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