Title :
Conformance of Chinese text to Zipf´s law
Author :
Clark, J.L. ; Lua, K.T. ; McCallum, J.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Coll. of Central Queensland, Brisbane, Qld., Australia
Abstract :
An investigation was carried out to determine whether Chinese text material conforms to Zipf´s law. The information reservoir for this particular investigation contains 2,022,604 Chinese ideograms. It is shown that single Chinese characters do not conform to Zipf´s law; however compound words are found to conform well. In addition, examining the regression analysis for compound words implies a good degree of conformity
Keywords :
database management systems; Chinese text; Zipf´s law; compound words; regression analysis; Assembly; Australia; Books; Databases; Educational institutions; Equations; Frequency; Information retrieval; Natural languages; Regression analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Databases, Parallel Architectures and Their Applications,. PARBASE-90, International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Miami Beach, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2035-8
DOI :
10.1109/PARBSE.1990.77200
