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RECOMB
2002
Springer
16 years 2 months ago
String barcoding: uncovering optimal virus signatures
There are many critical situations when one needs to rapidly identify an unidentified pathogen from among a given set of previously sequenced pathogens. DNA or RNA hybridization c...
Sam Rash, Dan Gusfield
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JUCS
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
On the Linear Number of Matching Substrings
Abstract: We study the number of matching substrings in the pattern matching problem. In general, there can be a quadratic number of matching substrings in the size of a given text...
Yo-Sub Han
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MFCS
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Explicit Inapproximability Bounds for the Shortest Superstring Problem
Abstract. Given a set of strings S = {s1, . . . , sn}, the Shortest Superstring problem asks for the shortest string s which contains each si as a substring. We consider two measur...
Virginia Vassilevska
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ACL
2012
13 years 5 months ago
Machine Translation without Words through Substring Alignment
In this paper, we demonstrate that accurate machine translation is possible without the concept of “words,” treating MT as a problem of transformation between character string...
Graham Neubig, Taro Watanabe, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsu...
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FOCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
On the Optimality of the Dimensionality Reduction Method
We investigate the optimality of (1+ )-approximation algorithms obtained via the dimensionality reduction method. We show that: • Any data structure for the (1 + )-approximate n...
Alexandr Andoni, Piotr Indyk, Mihai Patrascu