DocumentCode
1107383
Title
On Turing´s formula for word probabilities
Author
Nádas, Arthur
Author_Institution
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Volume
33
Issue
6
fYear
1985
fDate
12/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1414
Lastpage
1416
Abstract
A. M. Turing, in a 1941 personal communication to I. J. Good, suggested a formula for estimating probabilities of words in text and, more generally, of species in a mixed population of various species. It is remarkable that Turing´s formula can be obtained by significantly different statistical methods; we compare three ways to obtain it.
Keywords
Bayesian methods; Distributed computing; Frequency estimation; Natural languages; Probability; Smoothing methods; Speech recognition; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Vocabulary;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0096-3518
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TASSP.1985.1164728
Filename
1164728
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