A comparison of approximate string matching algorithms
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Introduction
- Experimental comparison of the running time of approximate string matching algorithms for the k differences problem is presented.
- Tarhio and Ukkonen8, 9 present an algorithm which is based on the Boyer-Moore approach and works in sublinear average time.
- The theoretical analyses given in the literature are helpful but it is important that the theory is completed with experimental comparisons extensive enough.
- The algorithm evaluates a modified form of tableD.
4 for J in 1 .. n loop
- For everyC-diagonal Algorithm GP performs an iteration that evaluates it from two previousC-diagonals (lines 7–38).
- The evaluation of each entry starts with evaluating the Col value (line 11).
- The sequence is updated on lines 28–35. ProcedureWithin(d) called on line 14 tests if text positiond is within some interval of thek first reference triples in the sequence.
- Instead of the wholeC defined above, tableC of the algorithm contains only three successiveC-diagonals.
- The use of this buffer of three diagonals is organized with variablesB1, B2, andB3.
7 DeQueue(Q, X);
- The scanning phase (lines 3–16) scans over the text and marks the parts that may contain approximate occurrences ofP .
- Parameterx of call EDP(x) tells how many columns should be evaluated for one marked diagonal.
- The minimum valuem for x is applicable for DC.
- The scanning phase is almost identical to the original algorithm.
- If (x) andq(x) are frequencies of characterx in the pattern and inQ, variableZ has the valueXx in Qmax(q(x) f(x); 0): The value ofZ is computed together with tableC which maintains the differencef(x) q(x) for everyx.
22 Next.Go To(P(I)) := R; Next := Next.Fail;
- In theformer case there is no approximate occurrence at the current alignmentand in the latter case a potential approximate occurrence has been found.
- For determining the length of the shift, i.e. what is the nextpo ential diagonal afterh for marking, the authors search for the first diagonal afterh, where at least one of the charactersth+m; th+m 1; : : : ; th+m k matches with the corresponding character ofP .
6 for I in m–k .. k loop
- The authors performed an extensive test program on all seven algorithms DP, EDP, GP, DC, UW, MM, and ABM described in the previous sections.
- In their tests, the authors used random patterns of varying lengths and random texts of length 100,000 characters over alphabets of different sizes.
- Because algorithms EDP, DC, MM, and ABM were better than the others, the authors studied relations of their execution times more carefully.
- The execution times of EDP and ABM on Sun (shown in Table II for some parameter values) were on the average 68 per cent and 60 per cent, respectively, of the corresponding times on Vaxstation.
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