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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Main Author: FABIO G. GUERRERO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2012-12-01
Series:Revista Colombiana de Estadística
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-17512012000300006