Presentation 2000/7/11
Quantification of Syntactic Information and its Application to Language Comparison
Hiroya Takamura, Kokichi Sugihara,
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Abstract(in English) We propose a method to quantify syntactic information(word order, conjugation, etc)using information theory. We compute the actual values of various syntactic features of German and English. The result quantitatively shows that, for German, the declination of noun phrases and the conjugation of verbs contain a larger amount of syntactic information. However, for English, the word order contains larger information.
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Keyword(in English) entropy / word order / conjugation / declination / sentence structure
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Title (in English) Quantification of Syntactic Information and its Application to Language Comparison
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Keyword(1) entropy
Keyword(2) word order
Keyword(3) conjugation
Keyword(4) declination
Keyword(5) sentence structure
1st Author's Name Hiroya Takamura
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School of Information Science()
2nd Author's Name Kokichi Sugihara
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo University Dept.of Mathematical Engineering
Date 2000/7/11
Paper # NLC2000-13
Volume (vol) vol.100
Number (no) 200
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 8
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