Statistical calculation of word entropies for four Western languages
- 1 March 1955
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Vol. 1 (1) , 49-53
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1955.1055123
Abstract
Using a modified version of Shannon's method, comparative figures for the word-letter entropies of printed English, French, German, and Spanish are obtained and the method described.Keywords
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