Estimation of probabilities for edit operations
Achim Weigel, T. Jager, A. Pies · 2002
In this work, as an alternative for initial estimation of edit costs, character confusion probabilities are discussed in the context of edit distances. Thereby, insertions have to be handled carefully and it is shown how improved estimations for them can be achieved. Furthermore, some of the proposed solutions based on joint events leading to inferior models for retrieving the word corresponding to the recognized string at hand from a given lexicon, are discussed.