Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Essential Readings?

Posted by ZevsVultAveHera on Saturday February 01, 2025 @12:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Publication analyzing/unifying topics like Dynamic Time Warping, Spell checking, Knuth-Moris-Pratt andother string search, Hidden Markov Chains, and many other text/image/signal processing algorithms/metrics in coherent form?

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by Rotundo on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:18PM (#42900644)

Part of your question is answered by Algorithms on Strings, by Crochemore, Hancard and Lecroq:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Strings-Maxime-Crochemore/...

In addition, I would recommend any thick book on Digital Signal Processing.

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by ZevsVultAveHera on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:23PM (#42900694)

Awesome! Are there any thick books on Digital Signal Processing that are dear to your heart?

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by Rotundo on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:38PM (#42900857)

I come from an engineering angle and am only superficially familiar with https://dspguide.com/ which I found useful for my field.

DSP is a broad field, from audio design to high speed communication to image processing. An introductory book (see above) will touch many subjects, but to go deeper you will have to find books dedicated to that specific field.

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by ZevsVultAveHera on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:04PM (#42901135)

Much appreciated!

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by saintamh on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:11PM (#42900574)

This is a classic for the purely algorithmic approaches:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Strings-Trees-Sequences-Co...

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by ZevsVultAveHera on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:24PM (#42900697)

Cool! Thank you so much!

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by eamonnkeogh on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:09AM (#42906387)

Dated now, but [a]

[a] Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison David Sankoff and Joseph Kruskal, with introduction by John Nerbonne

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Re:Ask HN: Is There Any Pattern Matching Bible or Set of Ess... by ZevsVultAveHera on Sunday February 02, 2025 @03:52AM (#42907265)

Fragments of it I found look promising. Thank you!

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