Modelling Natural Language with Claude Shannon's Notion of Surprisal

Michael Richter

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 76
• Have you ever wondered how the principles behind Shannon's groundbreaking Information Theory can be interwoven with the intricate fabric of linguistic... Lees meer

Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Texts

Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, Mihaiela Lupea, Doina Tatar, Gabriel Altmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 67
• The book presents methods for the objective analysis of poetic language. Common objects of literary studies such as rhythm, semantic explications, int... Lees meer

Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 70
• Quantitative Linguistics is a rapidly developing discipline covering more and more areas of linguistic and textological research. The book represents ... Lees meer

Cluster Analysis for Corpus Linguistics

Hermann Moisl

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 66
• The standard scientific methodology in linguistics is empirical testing of falsifiable hypotheses. As such the process of hypothesis generation is cen... Lees meer

Motifs in Language and Text

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 71
• The edited volume Motifs in Language and Text is the first collection of original research in the area of the quantitative analysis of motifs. It host... Lees meer

Analyses of Script

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 63
• This volume presents 12 papers on a new approach to the analysis of writing systems. For the first time, quantitative methods are introduced into this... Lees meer

Quantitative Analysis of Dependency Structures

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 72
• Dependency analysis is increasingly used in computational linguistics and cognitive science. Surprisingly, compared with studies based on phrase struc... Lees meer

Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text

• Hardcover | Duits | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 62
• The collection contains more than 60 original papers and reflects current research topics in linguistics and text analysis. Most of the papers present... Lees meer

Sequences in Language and Text

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 69
• The edited volume Sequences in Language and Text is the first collection of original research in the area of the quantitative analysis of sequentially... Lees meer

Word Frequency Studies

Ioan-Iovitz Popescu

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 64
• The present book finds and collects absolutely new aspects of word frequency. First, eminent characteristics (such as the h-point, first used in scien... Lees meer

Quantitative Syntax Analysis

Reinhard Köhler

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 65
• This is the first book which brings together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand and the methodology of quantita... Lees meer

Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts

Gabriel Altmann, Reinhard Köhler

• Hardcover | Engels | Quantitative Linguistics [Ql] | nr. 68
• The present volume presents objective methods to detect and analyse various forms of repetitions. Repetition of textual elements is more than a superf... Lees meer