About compression of vocabulary in computer oriented languages
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The author uses the entropy of the ideal Bose-Einstein gas to minimize losses in computer-oriented languages. Natural languages have the property of being excessive, and this excessiveness is important from the viewpoint of reliability of information transmission. The excessiveness manifests itself in doubling the grammatical or lexical tools in transmission of the sense of statements. So, at lexical level, the synonymy in natural languages is highly developed, i.e., the language contains many words and word-combinations with closely related meanings. At grammar level, the meanings are doubled in grammatical forms of different parts of the statement. For instance, in Russian, the person is given by both a pronoun and the ending of a verb in the Present tense, the spatial meaning of a noun is given by both the case ending and a preposition, etc. The excessiveness is especially typical of natural languages of synthetic type where a single word combines several morphological units expressing one or other meaning (i.e., the root, suffices, prefices, endings; all these parts of the word bear definite meanings). Such languages comprise, for instance, Russian, Hungarian, Baltic languages. Usually, in languages of this type, the system of cases is highly developed, for instance, there are 6 cases in Russian and more than 20 cases in Hungarian. The case endings allow one to express delicate spatial meanings such as: position in some place, entering some place, position near some place, direction of motion, etc. In languages of analytic type, complicated meanings are expressed by combining separate words with minimal changes (inflection); this is the simplest and most transparent (motivated) nomination method. Examples of
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره cs.CL/0303002 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003