Fix minor typos in README (#211)

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Ocn 2018-09-20 17:23:17 +04:00 committed by Oleksii Trekhleb
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@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ to assist natural language translation based on translation memory.
Lets take a simple example of finding minimum edit distance between
strings `ME` and `MY`. Intuitively you already know that minimum edit distance
here is `1` operation and this operation. And it is a replacing `E` with `Y`. But
here is `1` operation and this operation. And it is replacing `E` with `Y`. But
lets try to formalize it in a form of the algorithm in order to be able to
do more complex examples like transforming `Saturday` into `Sunday`.
@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ to transform an empty string to `MY`. And it is by inserting `Y` and `M`.
- Cell `(1:1)` contains number 0. It means that it costs nothing
to transform `M` into `M`.
- Cell `(1:2)` contains red number 1. It means that we need 1 operation
to transform `ME` to `M`. And it is be deleting `E`.
to transform `ME` to `M`. And it is by deleting `E`.
- And so on...
This looks easy for such small matrix as ours (it is only `3x3`). But here you
may find basic concepts that may be applied to calculate all those numbers for
bigger matrices (lets say `9x7` one, for `Saturday → Sunday` transformation).
bigger matrices (lets say a `9x7` matrix for `Saturday → Sunday` transformation).
According to the formula you only need three adjacent cells `(i-1:j)`, `(i-1:j-1)`, and `(i:j-1)` to
calculate the number for current cell `(i:j)`. All we need to do is to find the
@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ Let's draw a decision graph for this problem.
You may see a number of overlapping sub-problems on the picture that are marked
with red. Also there is no way to reduce the number of operations and make it
less then a minimum of those three adjacent cells from the formula.
less than a minimum of those three adjacent cells from the formula.
Also you may notice that each cell number in the matrix is being calculated
based on previous ones. Thus the tabulation technique (filling the cache in
bottom-up direction) is being applied here.
Applying this principles further we may solve more complicated cases like
Applying this principle further we may solve more complicated cases like
with `Saturday → Sunday` transformation.
![Levenshtein distance](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*fPEHiImYLKxSTUhrGbYq3g.jpeg)