The Japanese language has several thousand distinct characters, and the character code length is 16 bits. In such documents the X-bit units are interrelated. Conventional text compression employs g-bit sampling because the compressed object is usually English text. We investigated compression schemes based on ldbit sampling, expecting it improve the compression performance. In Japanese text whe...

A symbol is a pattern (of physical marks, electromagnetic energy, etc.) which denotes, designates, or otherwise has meaning. The notion that intelligence requires the use and manipulation of symbols, and that humans are therefore symbol systems, has been extremely in uential in arti cial intelligence. keywords: symbol, reasoning, intelligence, representation, logic This article has two parts. W...