Re: AW: Counting the Gallow Bits

["Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 Sep 2000, at 21:47, Brian Eric Farnell wrote:
> Claus Anders wrote:
> > Today I had the idea to make a bitmap of the VMS:
> > 1. For every char in VMS I compute the frequncy and assign a color
> > to the char depending on frequency: from red (low frequncy) to blue
> > (high frequency).

> I like it, this is sort of what I have been thinking about with
> music, though it looks like similar things have been done
> before.  I was thinking about assigning each letter a value and
> then drawing the curve between the values so that while still
> keeping to two dimensions, you can show letter, word position
> and have some data regarding relationships between letters.  I
> was still trying to find a meaningful way to assign the values,
> some method reproduceable with any piece of known or unknown
> text

If one is interested in the correlation between symbols, then 
assigning numerical values to the symbols of a symbolic sequence 
introduces bias in the new sequence. This has been done in the 
past with DNA sequences and it has been heavily criticised in the 
literature.
The characteristics of the newly made numerical sequence will vary 
with the selection of the numbers you assign to each symbol.

I am about to finish some correlation analysis of long texts. I hope to 
post some of the results soon.

Cheers,

Gabriel