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title = "Upper Bound of Entropy Rate Revisited {---}{A} New Extrapolation of Compressed Large-Scale Corpora{---}",
author = "Takahira, Ryosuke and
Tanaka-Ishii, Kumiko and
D{\k{e}}bowski, {\L}ukasz",
editor = "Brunato, Dominique and
Dell{'}Orletta, Felice and
Venturi, Giulia and
Fran{\c{c}}ois, Thomas and
Blache, Philippe",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity ({CL}4{LC})",
month = dec,
year = "2016",
address = "Osaka, Japan",
publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W16-4124",
pages = "213--221",
abstract = "The article presents results of entropy rate estimation for human languages across six languages by using large, state-of-the-art corpora of up to 7.8 gigabytes. To obtain the estimates for data length tending to infinity, we use an extrapolation function given by an ansatz. Whereas some ansatzes of this kind were proposed in previous research papers, here we introduce a stretched exponential extrapolation function that has a smaller error of fit. In this way, we uncover a possibility that the entropy rates of human languages are positive but 20{\%} smaller than previously reported.",
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%T Upper Bound of Entropy Rate Revisited —A New Extrapolation of Compressed Large-Scale Corpora—
%A Takahira, Ryosuke
%A Tanaka-Ishii, Kumiko
%A Dębowski, Łukasz
%Y Brunato, Dominique
%Y Dell’Orletta, Felice
%Y Venturi, Giulia
%Y François, Thomas
%Y Blache, Philippe
%S Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC)
%D 2016
%8 December
%I The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
%C Osaka, Japan
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%X The article presents results of entropy rate estimation for human languages across six languages by using large, state-of-the-art corpora of up to 7.8 gigabytes. To obtain the estimates for data length tending to infinity, we use an extrapolation function given by an ansatz. Whereas some ansatzes of this kind were proposed in previous research papers, here we introduce a stretched exponential extrapolation function that has a smaller error of fit. In this way, we uncover a possibility that the entropy rates of human languages are positive but 20% smaller than previously reported.
%U https://aclanthology.org/W16-4124
%P 213-221
Markdown (Informal)
[Upper Bound of Entropy Rate Revisited —A New Extrapolation of Compressed Large-Scale Corpora—](https://aclanthology.org/W16-4124) (Takahira et al., CL4LC 2016)
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