Prediction and Entropy of Printed English
- 1 January 1951
- journal article
- website
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Bell System Technical Journal
- Vol. 30 (1) , 50-64
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-7305.1951.tb01366.x
Abstract
A new method of estimating the entropy and redundancy of a language is described. This method exploits the knowledge of the language statistics possessed by those who speak the language, and depends on experimental results in prediction of the next l...This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: