Re: VMs: Talking about entropy

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 9:24 am, Anders, Claus wrote:
> Hi all,
> how can I calculate the entropy of a given text (let's say the VMS) encoded
> in an arbitraly set of symbols (let's say Hanzi ideograms).
> I'd do a mppaing for each VMS token (chars bet '.' and such) and map them
> of one of the most common (let's assume the first 7000 most frq.
> Hanzi/Kanji).

You could use Jacques's Monkey programme to calculate the entropy of words in 
a corpus. 

Cheers,
Gabriel

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