Background: The number of k-words shared between two sequences is a simple and effcient alignment-free sequence comparison method. This statistic, D2, has been used for the cluste...
Human-memorable passwords are a mainstay of computer security. To decrease vulnerability of passwords to bruteforce dictionary attacks, many organizations enforce complicated pass...
Fingerspelling is used in sign language to spell out names of people and places for which there is no sign or for which the sign is not known. In this work we describe a Turkish fi...
Recently the duplication closure of words and languages has received much interest. We investigate a reversal of it: the duplication root reduces a word to a square-free one. After...
In Japanese, there are a large number of notational variants of words. This is because Japanese words are written in three kinds of characters: kanji (Chinese) characters, hiragar...
Aya Nishikawa, Ryo Nishimura, Yasuhiko Watanabe, Y...