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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The edit distance between two words w1, w2 is the minimal number of word operations
(letter insertions, deletions, and substitutions) necessary to transform w1 to
w2. The edit distance generalizes to languages L1,L2, where the edit distance
is the minimal number k such that for every word from L1 there exists a word in
L2 with edit distance at most k. We study the edit distance computation problem
between pushdown automata and their subclasses. The problem of computing edit
distance to pushdown automata is undecidable, and in practice, the interesting
question is to compute the edit distance from a pushdown automaton (the implementation,
a standard model for programs with recursion) to a regular language (the specification).
In this work, we present a complete picture of decidability and complexity for
deciding whether, for a given threshold k, the edit distance from a pushdown automaton
to a finite automaton is at most k.
acknowledgement: "This research was funded in part by the European Research Council
(ERC) under\r\ngrant agreement 267989 (QUAREM), by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
projects\r\nS11402-N23 (RiSE) and Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award), FWF Grant No P23499-\r\nN23,
FWF NFN Grant No S11407-N23 (RiSE), ERC Start grant (279307: Graph\r\nGames), and
MSR faculty fellows award."
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arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
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last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724
- first_name: Rasmus
full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
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last_name: Ibsen-Jensen
orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389
- first_name: Jan
full_name: Otop, Jan
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last_name: Otop
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Otop J. Edit distance for pushdown
automata. In: 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming.
Vol 9135. Springer Nature; 2015:121-133. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_10'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Otop, J. (2015).
Edit distance for pushdown automata. In 42nd International Colloquium on Automata,
Languages, and Programming (Vol. 9135, pp. 121–133). Kyoto, Japan: Springer
Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_10'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Jan
Otop. “Edit Distance for Pushdown Automata.” In 42nd International Colloquium
on Automata, Languages, and Programming, 9135:121–33. Springer Nature, 2015.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_10.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and J. Otop, “Edit distance
for pushdown automata,” in 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages,
and Programming, Kyoto, Japan, 2015, vol. 9135, no. Part II, pp. 121–133.
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Otop J. 2015. Edit distance for
pushdown automata. 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming.
ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, LNCS, vol. 9135, 121–133.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Edit Distance for Pushdown Automata.” 42nd
International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, vol. 9135,
no. Part II, Springer Nature, 2015, pp. 121–33, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_10.
short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Otop, in:, 42nd International
Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, Springer Nature, 2015, pp.
121–133.
conference:
end_date: 2015-07-10
location: Kyoto, Japan
name: 'ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming'
start_date: 2015-07-06
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:01Z
date_published: 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-07-06T13:27:53Z
day: '01'
department:
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- _id: ToHe
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_10
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1504.08259'
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