Analysing differences among animal songs quantitatively by means of the Levenshtein distance measure

Behaviour

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-252

  Tougaard, Jakob ^a,b   Eriksen, Nina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Humpback whales; Levenshtein distance; Megaptera novaeangliae; Song; String edit distance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 33748921865     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853906775900685     Document Type: Article

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