Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
2008-01-16
Computer Science
Computation and Language
7 pages, 4 double figures, 45 references
Scientific paper
We present a comparison of two english texts, written by Lewis Carroll, one (Alice in wonderland) and the other (Through a looking glass), the former translated into esperanto, in order to observe whether natural and artificial languages significantly differ from each other. We construct one dimensional time series like signals using either word lengths or word frequencies. We use the multifractal ideas for sorting out correlations in the writings. In order to check the robustness of the methods we also write the corresponding shuffled texts. We compare characteristic functions and e.g. observe marked differences in the (far from parabolic) f(alpha) curves, differences which we attribute to Tsallis non extensive statistical features in the ''frequency time series'' and ''length time series''. The esperanto text has more extreme vallues. A very rough approximation consists in modeling the texts as a random Cantor set if resulting from a binomial cascade of long and short words (or words and blanks). This leads to parameters characterizing the text style, and most likely in fine the author writings.
Ausloos Marcel
Gillet J.
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