• DocumentCode
    2021042
  • Title

    On vocabulary size of grammar-based codes

  • Author

    Dgbowski, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Comput. Sci., Polish Acad. of Sci., Warsaw
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    24-29 June 2007
  • Firstpage
    91
  • Lastpage
    95
  • Abstract
    We discuss inequalities holding between the vocabulary size, i.e., the number of distinct nonterminal symbols in a grammar-based compression for a string, and the excess length of the respective universal code, i.e., the code-based analog of algorithmic mutual information. The aim is to strengthen inequalities which were discussed in a weaker form in linguistics but shed some light on redundancy of efficiently computable codes. The main contribution of the paper is a construction of universal grammar-based codes for which the excess lengths can be bounded easily.
  • Keywords
    codes; data compression; grammars; redundancy; algorithmic mutual information; computable code redundancy; nonterminal symbol; string compression; universal grammar-based codes; vocabulary size; Computer science; Decoding; Encoding; Entropy; Integrated circuit noise; Mutual information; Natural languages; Stochastic processes; Vocabulary;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2007. ISIT 2007. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Nice
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1397-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2007.4557209
  • Filename
    4557209