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
fDate :
12/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASSP.1976.1162865
