Edit distance-based kernel functions for
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Michel Neuhaus; Horst Bunke
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A common approach in structural pattern classification is to define a dissimilarity measure on patterns and apply a distance-based nearest-neighbor classifier. In this paper, we introduce an alternative method for classification using kernel functions based on edit distance. The proposed approach is