A survey on tree edit distance and related problems
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Tree edit distance is used in various disciplines for calculating the difference between hierarchical trees, but had not been used previously for assessing users' mental model of a web site.
“This method is used in a variety of disciplines for calculating the difference (or distance) between two hierarchical trees (Bille, 2005), but had not been used previously for assessing users' mental model of a web site.”
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- Authors
- Bille, P.
- Affiliations
- IT University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Bille, Philip
- ORCID
- Bille, Philip
- Venue
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-06
- Volume
- 337
- Issue
- 1-3
- Pages
- 217-239
- ISSN
- 0304-3975 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1978478796
- Cited by
- 751
- References
- 69
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- FWCI
- 25.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Theoretical Computer Science (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Algorithms and Data Compression
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Graph Theory and Algorithms
- Keywords
- tree edit distance, labeled trees, tree alignment, tree edit operations, tree comparison, relabeling
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