Distributed Algorithm for Parallel Edit Distance Computation

Muhammad Umair Sadiq, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf
2020 Computing and informatics  
The edit distance is the measure that quantifies the difference between two strings. It is an important concept because it has its usage in many domains such as natural language processing, spell checking, genome matching, and pattern recognition. Edit distance is also known as Levenshtein distance. Sequentially, the edit distance is computed by using dynamic programming based strategy that may not provide results in reasonable time when input strings are large. In this work, a distributed
more » ... ithm is presented for parallel edit distance computation. The proposed algorithm is both time and space efficient. It is evaluated on a hybrid setup of distributed and shared memory systems. Results suggest that the proposed algorithm achieves significant performance gain over the existing parallel approach.
doi:10.31577/cai_2020_4_757 fatcat:kil5sq5wnbc4lapauuin56kfjm