• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.11A no.2
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• pp.159-164
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• 2004

In the previous researches, tree comparison methods are almost studied in comparing weighted or labeled tree(decorated tree). But in this paper, we propose a tree comparison and similarity evaluation algorithm can be applied to comparison of two normal trees. The algorithm converts two trees into node string using unparser, evaluates similarity and finally return similarity value from 0.0 to 1.0. In the experiment part of this paper, we visually presented matched nodes and unmatched nodes between two trees. By using this tree similarity algorithm, we can not only evaluate similarity between two specific programs or documents but also detect duplicated code.