Re: VMs: left & right word entropy

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gabriel,

At 11:57 23/12/2003 +0000, Gabriel Landini wrote:
> Reading back Akinori Ito's very interesting paper on left & right word
> entropies (sorry I can't give a link as I re-discovered a pdf copy floating
> in my hard drive) kept me thinking about the "directionality" of the vms
> text.

Here's Akinori Ito's Geocities page, with links to this paper (and two 
others):-
        http://www.geocities.co.jp/Technopolis/7220/voy/

On the subject of the plume & contractions (etc)... I'm still wondering 
about the relationship between word-length in the VMs and word-length in 
abbreviating shorthands: perhaps that might well give word-length an 
artificial-looking (possibly even binomial) distribution?

The way I see it, any kind of many-to-one abbreviation system would alter 
the left and right entropies significantly. I'm not sure how we could test 
this, though... tricky. :-(

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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