On vocabulary size of grammar-based codes
Information Theory
2020-03-11 v2 Computation and Language
math.IT
Abstract
We discuss inequalities holding between the vocabulary size, i.e., the number of distinct nonterminal symbols in a grammar-based compression for a string, and the excess length of the respective universal code, i.e., the code-based analog of algorithmic mutual information. The aim is to strengthen inequalities which were discussed in a weaker form in linguistics but shed some light on redundancy of efficiently computable codes. The main contribution of the paper is a construction of universal grammar-based codes for which the excess lengths can be bounded easily.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0701047,
title = {On vocabulary size of grammar-based codes},
author = {Lukasz Debowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0701047},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
5 pages, accepted to ISIT 2007 and corrected