5.4 - Applications in Spelling Corrections
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What is Edit Distance?
💡 Hint: Think of how you would change one word to another.
List the three types of operations involved in calculating Edit Distance.
💡 Hint: Consider the methods through which we can change letters.
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What does Edit Distance measure?
💡 Hint: Focus on what information Edit Distance provides.
True or False: Edit Distance only accounts for insertions and deletions.
💡 Hint: Think about all ways you can change a string.
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Given the words 'book' and 'back', compute the Edit Distance and detail each change.
💡 Hint: Compare each character systematically.
Discuss the practical implications of optimizing Edit Distance for large databases of text.
💡 Hint: Think about the scale of data and how this optimization leads to faster query handling.
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