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Malone, David and Kumar Palada, Sai (2019) Entropy Estimates for the Irish Language. In: IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2019). (In Press)
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Abstract
Entropy estimates for natural languages are useful for a number of reasons. For example, they can be used to estimate the length of a translated text or the amount of text required to make a brute-force attack on an encrypted message feasible. This paper briefly reviews the development of techniques for entropy estimation and then applies modern techniques to Irish text. We believe this addresses a gap in the literature giving an entropy estimate for the Irish language. We discuss our results in the context of entropy estimates for equivalent English text.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | entropy; compression; estimation; natural language; Irish; English; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematics and Statistics |
| Item ID: | 12080 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1109/ISSC.2019.8904926 |
| Depositing User: | Dr. David Malone |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2019 10:05 |
| Refereed: | No |
| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/12080 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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