Corpora: Relative text length ...

Alexander Clark asc at aclark.demon.co.uk
Wed May 1 10:55:48 UTC 2002


Paul Clough wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I was interested in the discussion regarding relative text length
> and wondered whether this article about text compression
> was related in any way:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50192,00.html
>


This is quite a notorious article. See

http://www.research.microsoft.com/~joshuago/physicscomment.ps

for a critique.


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Alexander Clark
asc at aclark.demon.co.uk
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ISSCO/ETI, University of Geneva



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