4.2.2 - Operations Involved
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Practice Questions
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What is edit distance?
💡 Hint: Think about the actions you can perform on a string.
Why is document similarity important?
💡 Hint: Consider how similar documents might affect search engine results.
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What does edit distance quantify?
💡 Hint: Focus on what operations are counted for distance.
True or False: Similarity measurement is only useful for detecting plagiarism.
💡 Hint: Consider other applications beyond plagiarism.
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Given the words 'intention' and 'execution', how many edits are required to convert one to the other using the edit distance metric? Show your workings.
💡 Hint: Write out both words; identify one letter that matches at a time and count changes.
Create a small program that computes the edit distance between any two input strings and explains its logic step by step.
💡 Hint: Start with a 2D array to represent your base cases and then fill in values using previous computations.
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