Lecture 7: Weighted Edit Distance, Other Variations

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[@pawanchoure1289]

Measurement of difference between strings is the edit distance or Levenshtein distance (named after Soviet mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein. Simply put, edit distance is a measurement of how many changes we must do to one string to transform it into the string we are comparing it to.

[@pawanchoure1289]

Weighted according to the distance between the character that is removed and the character that is inserted. For example, swapping the ​s in ​buttsr for an ​e to make ​butter would be weighted by the distance between ​e​ and ​s​.

[@louerleseigneur4532]

Thanks sir ji

[@divyanshukumar2605]

i can't understand what he wants to say. for example 21:35 to 21:50 .

[@harshgupta3641]

sir what is the meaning of highest noisy channel probability..... in correction of non-word error.

[@pawanchoure1289]

metothesis