• DocumentCode
    1088556
  • Title

    A comment on the entropy of the Chinese language

  • Author

    Wong, Kai-Kit ; Poon, R.

  • Author_Institution
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1976
  • fDate
    12/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    583
  • Lastpage
    585
  • Abstract
    Some statistical properties of the Chinese language are studied from an information-theoretic point of view. The entropies of Chinese characters, radicals, and Mandarin syllables are evaluated.
  • Keywords
    Acoustic signal processing; Dictionaries; Entropy; Frequency; Machine learning; Natural languages; Probability; Speech processing; Vocabulary; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-3518
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASSP.1976.1162865
  • Filename
    1162865
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1088556