| Author(s) | Ibrahim A. AI-Kadi |
| Affiliation | Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia Tel. (966-1)467-6796 Fax(966-1)467-6757 |
| Title | Study of Information-theoretic Properties of Arabic Based on Word |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Computer & Information Sciences. Volume 10, No 1. (1998/1418) |
| Abstract | Natural languages have very complicated structures but are highly redundant. Statistical studies of a language are extremely important in numerous fields of knowledge, including Education, Linguistics, Computers and Communications. The aim of this paper is to study the word statistics of the Arabic Language with the intention of estimating the information content of Arabic based on word entropy. Actual statistics of frequencies of Arabic based on a 700,OOO-word sample will be used to demonstrate the applicability ofZipfs Law to the Arabic Language. Word and letter entropy and redundancy of Arabic are then deduced and compared with corresponding values of English. |
