... shown in Table 2. As weexpected, positional information helps morewhen using a richer edit set than when using only single character edits. For a maximumwindow size of 0, using positionalinformation ... iterativelyreestimating parameters, as was done in theoriginal formulation in (Church and Gale1991). Doing so resulted in a slightdegradation in performance. The data weare using is much cleaner than that ... letters in si with those in wi based on minimizing the edit distancebetween si and wi, based on single characterinsertions, deletions and substitutions. For instance, given the training...