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Subject: Re: Shannon-theoretic Language Approximators
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I would be happy with any single one of the above. I don't require all of them
at once!
Thank you for responding. Any code you can supply would be appreciated.
I looked at the book you mentioned via Amazon.com, but it was labeled "hard to
find" or "backordered" so it might be a while before it comes.
Mark
On Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:27:52 +0100, Anders Holtsberg <andersh@maths.lth.se>
wrote:
>MJE wrote:
>> I am wondering whether anyone has written a random-text generator in the Icon
>> language of the sort that is described in the book "An Introduction to
>> Information Theory : Symbols, Signals and Noise" by John Robinson Pierce
>> (paperback; @ US$7.16 from http://www.amazon.com). [...]
>
>If you like that you should buy a copy of Charniak's book Statistical
>language
>processing. It is about that and about statistical parsers and more. It
>is
>short and clear and cheap paperback and just great. I read it twice.
>
>And I have a chart parser up and running in Icon that I will give to
>others
>some day but I must debug and document and add statisical parts and
>unification
>and output formatting and fancy graphics in my spare time first ...
>
>> MORE GENERALLY: I would be interested in any Icon implementations of language
>> statistics. Examples: counting frequencies of characters in a block of text,
>> counting word frequencies in a block of text, examining symmetries in poetry,
>> computing estimated probabilities of particular sequences of characters.
>>
>
>No, probably because there are so many things people would like to
>do that a package would have to be very general. Indeed so general as to
>be
>a full programming language. And there are such beasts really. The best
>is
>called - well, you just mentioned it - Icon.
>
>> Thank you so very much,
>>
>> Mark Evans <evans@gte.net>
>
>best wishes
>
>-- Andy
>
>=== Anders Holtsberg ============================ andersh@maths.lth.se
>===
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