@InProceedings{gabory_et_al:LIPIcs.CPM.2023.11, author = {Gabory, Esteban and Mwaniki, Moses Njagi and Pisanti, Nadia and Pissis, Solon P. and Radoszewski, Jakub and Sweering, Michelle and Zuba, Wiktor}, title = {{Comparing Elastic-Degenerate Strings: Algorithms, Lower Bounds, and Applications}}, booktitle = {34th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2023)}, pages = {11:1--11:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-276-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2023}, volume = {259}, editor = {Bulteau, Laurent and Lipt\'{a}k, Zsuzsanna}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.11}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-179650}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CPM.2023.11}, annote = {Keywords: elastic-degenerate string, sequence comparison, languages intersection, pangenome, acronym identification} }