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. 2002 Jan 28;88(4):048702.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.048702. Epub 2002 Jan 8.

Language trees and zipping

Dario Benedetto  1 , Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto
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Language trees and zipping

Dario Benedetto et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

In this Letter we present a very general method for extracting information from a generic string of characters, e.g., a text, a DNA sequence, or a time series. Based on data-compression techniques, its key point is the computation of a suitable measure of the remoteness of two bodies of knowledge. We present the implementation of the method to linguistic motivated problems, featuring highly accurate results for language recognition, authorship attribution, and language classification.

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    Khmelev DV, Teahan WJ. Khmelev DV, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Feb 28;90(8):089803; author reply 089804. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.089803. Epub 2003 Feb 27. Phys Rev Lett. 2003. PMID: 12633476 No abstract available.

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