On the Entropy of Written Spanish Sobre la entropía del español escrito
A discussion on the entropy of the Spanish language by means of a practical method for calculating the entropy of a text by direct computer processing is presented. As an example of application, thirty samples of Spanish text are analyzed, totaling 22.8 million characters. Symbol lengths from n = 1...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2012-12-01
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Series: | Revista Colombiana de Estadística |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-17512012000300006 |