Language Trees and Zipping

Preprint

19 December 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0108530

Abstract

In this letter we present a very general method to extract information from a generic string of characters, e.g. a text, a DNA sequence or a time series. Based on data-compression techniques, its key point is the computation of a suitable measure of the remoteness of two bodies of knowledge. We present the implementation of the method to linguistic motivated problems, featuring highly accurate results for language recognition, authorship attribution and language classification.

Keywords

METHOD TO EXTRACT
DATA COMPRESSION
LANGUAGE TREES
DNA SEQUENCE
TIME SERIES
MOTIVATED
ZIPPING
TREES

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Version 1, 2001-08-31, ArXiv
Version 2, 2001-12-19, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 88 (4), 048702.

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