On the Entropy of Written Spanish

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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Published in:Revista Colombiana de Estadística
Main Author: Fabio G. Guerrero
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2012
Subjects:
Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas
Zipf’s law
Shannon entropy
Stochastic process
Law of large numbers
Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=89925367007
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