LEADER 02551nam 2200361z- 450 001 9910557114403321 005 20210501 035 $a(CKB)5400000000040902 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68848 035 $a(oapen)doab68848 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000040902 100 $a20202105d2020 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aInformation Theory and Language 210 $aBasel, Switzerland$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 311 08$a3-03936-026-4 311 08$a3-03936-027-2 330 $a"Information Theory and Language" is a collection of 12 articles that appeared recently in Entropy as part of a Special Issue of the same title. These contributions represent state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research at the interface of information theory and language studies. They concern in particular: ? Applications of information theoretic concepts such as Shannon and Re?nyi entropies, mutual information, and rate-distortion curves to the research of natural languages; ? Mathematical work in information theory inspired by natural language phenomena, such as deriving moments of subword complexity or proving continuity of mutual information; ? Empirical and theoretical investigation of quantitative laws of natural language such as Zipf's law, Herdan's law, and Menzerath-Altmann's law; ? Empirical and theoretical investigations of statistical language models, including recently developed neural language models, their entropies, and other parameters; ? Standardizing language resources for statistical investigation of natural language; ? Other topics concerning semantics, syntax, and critical phenomena. Whereas the traditional divide between probabilistic and formal approaches to human language, cultivated in the disjoint scholarships of natural sciences and humanities, has been blurred in recent years, this book can contribute to pointing out potential areas of future research cross-fertilization. 606 $aLanguage and Linguistics$2bicssc 615 7$aLanguage and Linguistics 700 $aD?bowski$b ?ukasz$4edt$01290948 702 $aBentz$b Christian$4edt 702 $aD?bowski$b ?ukasz$4oth 702 $aBentz$b Christian$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557114403321 996 $aInformation Theory and Language$93021678 997 $aUNINA