Entropy in different text types.
The present investigation is an attempt to investigate how the unique linguistic profile of different text types can be reflected in their respective entropy characteristics. With samples from the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese and the Freiburg-Brown corpus of American English, the research in...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 528 - 543 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=125498668&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 125498668 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 2055768X JEO9 jtl: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities issn: 2055768X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2017 vid: 32 iid: 3 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 125498668 10.1093/llc/fqw008 ppf: 528 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 863KB tig: atl: Entropy in different text types. aug: au: Ruina Chen Haitao Liu Altmann, Gabriel affil: Department of Foreign Languages, Guizhou University, China Department of Linguistics, Zhejiang University, China Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China Ruhr University Bochum, Germany su: Content analysis Chinese language English grammar Corpora Vocabulary American English language Grammar sug: subj: Content analysis Chinese language English grammar Corpora Vocabulary American English language Grammar ab: The present investigation is an attempt to investigate how the unique linguistic profile of different text types can be reflected in their respective entropy characteristics. With samples from the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese and the Freiburg-Brown corpus of American English, the research investigates entropy performances in two dimensions: the relative entropy of words and their part of- speech (POS) on different sentential positions, and entropy of aspect markers. Our research yields the following results: First, it shows a strikingly similar distribution pattern in Chinese and English concerning the relative entropy of word-forms and POS-forms on different sentential positions. The relative entropy of word-forms in descending order yields: news > essays > official > academic > fiction, and the POS-forms yields: fiction > essays > news > academic > official. The relative entropy of POS-forms may be a more reliable indicator of syntactical differences, which helps to distinguish dichotomous 'narrative vs. expository' text types in both Chinese and English. Second, there exists a cross-linguistic difference concerning entropy of aspect markers, namely, Chinese displays higher relative entropy than English. This indicates that aspect-marking in terms of variation is more prominent in Chinese grammar than in English. The 'narrative vs. expository distinction' is also identified by entropy of aspect markers in both Chinese and English, though more obviously in Chinese. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: © 2019 EADH: The European Association for Digital Humanities. item: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities holder: Oxford University Press / USA dt: @attributes: year: 2017 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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