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On the letter frequencies and entropy of written Marathi

Information Theory 2017-07-27 v1 Computation and Language math.IT

Abstract

We carry out a comprehensive analysis of letter frequencies in contemporary written Marathi. We determine sets of letters which statistically predominate any large generic Marathi text, and use these sets to estimate the entropy of Marathi.

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@article{arxiv.1707.08209,
  title  = {On the letter frequencies and entropy of written Marathi},
  author = {Jaydeep Chipalkatti and Mihir Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08209},
  year   = {2017}
}