Entropy and long-range correlations in literary english
Ebeling W, Pöschel T (1994)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 1994
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Book Volume: 26
Pages Range: 241-246
Journal Issue: 4
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/26/4/001
Abstract
We investigated long-range correlations in two literary texts, “Moby Dyck” by H. Melville and Grimm's tales. The analysis is based on the calculation of entropylike quantities as the mutual information for pairs of letters and the entropy, the mean uncertainty, per letter. We further estimate the number of different subwords of a given length n. Filtering out the contributions due to the effects of the finite length of the texts, we find correlations ranging to a few hundred letters. Scaling laws for the mutual information (decay with a power law), for the entropy per letter (decay with the inverse square root of n) and for the word numbers (stretched exponential growth with n and with a power law of the text length) were found.
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Ebeling, W., & Pöschel, T. (1994). Entropy and long-range correlations in literary english. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 26(4), 241-246. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/26/4/001
MLA:
Ebeling, Werner, and Thorsten Pöschel. "Entropy and long-range correlations in literary english." EPL - Europhysics Letters 26.4 (1994): 241-246.
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