The predictability of letters in written english Export

@misc{citeulike:2194684, abstract = {We show that the predictability of letters in written English texts depends strongly on their position in the word. The first letters are usually the least easy to predict. This agrees with the intuitive notion that words are well defined subunits in written languages, with much weaker correlations across these units than within them. It implies that the average entropy of a letter deep inside a word is roughly 4 times smaller than the entropy of the first letter.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Schuermann, Thomas and Grassberger, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {2194684}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4516}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.4516}, day = {26}, eprint = {0710.4516}, keywords = {alphabet, probability, text}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2008-07-28 16:27:58}, priority = {2}, title = {The predictability of letters in written english}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4516}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2194684 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2194684 N2 - We show that the predictability of letters in written English texts depends strongly on their position in the word. The first letters are usually the least easy to predict. This agrees with the intuitive notion that words are well defined subunits in written languages, with much weaker correlations across these units than within them. It implies that the average entropy of a letter deep inside a word is roughly 4 times smaller than the entropy of the first letter. TI - The predictability of letters in written english KW - alphabet KW - probability KW - text AU - Schuermann, Thomas AU - Grassberger, Peter PY - 2007/Oct/26/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4516 ER -