Very fast and simple approximate string matching

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 65-70

  Navarro, Gonzalo ^a   Baeza Yates, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Approximate matching; Information retrieval; Text searching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001803781     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0020-0190(99)00121-0     Document Type: Article

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