{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/novel-algorithm-to-generate-shortest-edit","title":"Novel algorithm to generate shortest edit script using Levenshtein distance algorithm","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2022-08-16","proceeding":"Github 2022 8","authors":["P. Prakash Maria Liju"],"abstract":"String similarity, longest common subsequence and shortest edit scripts are the triplets of problem that related to each other. There are different algorithms exist to generate edit script by solving longest common subsequence problem. This paper proposes an algorithm that uses string similarity problem to generate shortest edit script. For this we use the famous Levenshtein distance algorithm, which computes a numerical value that represents similarity between the strings from 0 to n, where n is the length of longest input string, and produce the shortest edit script which contains instructions of Insert, Delete and Substitute.","url_abs":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ppml38/shortest_edit_script/main/paper/shortest_edit_script_algorithm.pdf","url_pdf":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ppml38/shortest_edit_script/main/paper/shortest_edit_script_algorithm.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"novel-algorithm-to-generate-shortest-edit","repo_url":"https://github.com/ppml38/shortest_edit_script","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"edit-script-generation","task_name":"Edit script generation"},{"task_slug":"file-difference","task_name":"File difference"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}