@InProceedings{charikar_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.34, author = {Charikar, Moses and Geri, Ofir and Kim, Michael P. and Kuszmaul, William}, title = {{On Estimating Edit Distance: Alignment, Dimension Reduction, and Embeddings}}, booktitle = {45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)}, pages = {34:1--34:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-076-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {107}, editor = {Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Kaklamanis, Christos and Marx, D\'{a}niel and Sannella, Donald}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.34}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90383}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.34}, annote = {Keywords: edit distance, alignment, approximation algorithms, embedding, dimension reduction} }