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/* | |
Problem: Given two strings, find the edit distance to make those the same. | |
edit - insert, remove, replace | |
*/ | |
public class EditDistance | |
// complexity: time O(3^n), space O(n) | |
static int findEditDistanceRecur(String X, String Y, int m, int n) { | |
// base case | |
if (m == 0) { // insert rest of all | |
return n; | |
} | |
if (n == 0) { // insert rest of all | |
return m; | |
} | |
if (X.charAt(m - 1) == Y.charAt(n - 1)) { | |
return findEditDistanceRecur(X, Y, m - 1, n - 1); | |
} else { | |
return 1 + Math.min( | |
findEditDistanceRecur(X, Y, m, n - 1), // insert | |
Math.min( | |
findEditDistanceRecur(X, Y, m - 1, n), // remove | |
findEditDistanceRecur(X, Y, m - 1, n - 1))); // replace | |
} | |
} | |
// complexity: time O(n*m), space O(n*m), m: length of X, n: length of Y | |
static int findEditDistance(String X, String Y) { | |
int m = X.length(); | |
int n = Y.length(); | |
int[][] memo = new int[m + 1][n + 1]; | |
// initialize | |
for (int i = 0; i <= m; i++) { | |
memo[i][0] = i; | |
} | |
for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++) { | |
memo[0][i] = i; | |
} | |
// fill the rest | |
for (int i = 1; i <= m; i++) { | |
char c0 = X.charAt(i-1); | |
for (int j = 1; j <= n; j++) { | |
char c1 = Y.charAt(j-1); | |
if (c0 == c1) { | |
memo[i][j] = memo[i-1][j-1]; | |
} else { | |
int replace = memo[i-1][j-1]+1; | |
int insert = memo[i][j-1] + 1; | |
int delete = memo[i-1][j] + 1; | |
memo[i][j] = Math.min(replace, Math.min(insert, delete)); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
return memo[m][n]; | |
} | |
public static void main(String[] arg) { | |
String s0 = "abcd"; | |
String s1 = "cdef"; | |
System.out.println(findEditDistanceRecur(s0, s1, s0.length(), s1.length())); | |
System.out.println(findEditDistance(s0, s1)); | |
} | |
} | |
/* | |
References: | |
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dynamic-programming-set-5-edit-distance/ | |
http://algorithms.tutorialhorizon.com/dynamic-programming-edit-distance-problem/ | |
http://www.programcreek.com/2013/12/edit-distance-in-java/ | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance | |
*/ |
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