Syntactic Parameters and a Coding Theory Perspective on Entropy and Complexity of Language Families
We present a simple computational approach to assigning a measure of complexity and information/entropy to families of natural languages, based on syntactic parameters and the theory of error correcting codes. We associate to each language a binary string of syntactic parameters and to a language fa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/18/4/110 |