Title :
On the entropy of the Malay language (Corresp.)
fDate :
5/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Cover and King´s gambling approach for the estimation of the entropy of language is used to estimate the entropy of the Malay language. Our experimental results are shown to support the claim by Cover that committee betting can do better than that of individual subjects.
Keywords :
Entropy functions; Languages; Dictionaries; Entropy; Information theory; Mathematics; Natural languages; Probability; Statistics; Stochastic processes; Testing;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIT.1981.1056338
