General indexation of weighted automata
Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, Murat Saraçlar · 2004
Much of the massive quantities of digitized data widely available, e.g., text, speech, hand-written sequences, are either given directly, or, as a result of some prior processing, as weighted automata. These are compact representations of a large number of alternative sequences and their weights reflecting the uncertainty or variability of the data. Thus, the indexation of such data requires indexing weighted automata.