Conciseness of Ukrainian, Russian and English: Application to Translation Studies

We study the amount of information contained in symbolic sequences, using a single-character entropy associated with the frequencies of characters that comprise the alphabet of a coding system. This enables comparing degrees of laconism inherent to the Ukrainian, Russian and English languages. The a...

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Published in:	2019 XIth International Scientific and Practical Conference on Electronics and Information Technologies (ELIT) pp. 44 - 50
Main Authors:	Kushnir, O. S., Dzera, O. V., Kushnir, L. O.
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01-09-2019
Subjects:	Encoding Entropy explicitation Fluctuations frequency of letters Information entropy Information technology Linguistics natural languages Translation Studies
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Summary:	We study the amount of information contained in symbolic sequences, using a single-character entropy associated with the frequencies of characters that comprise the alphabet of a coding system. This enables comparing degrees of laconism inherent to the Ukrainian, Russian and English languages. The approach of information entropy is applied to examine explicitation hypothesis known from Translation Studies.
DOI:	10.1109/ELIT.2019.8892290