Entropy and Long range correlations in literary English

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1993-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9309005v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

8 pages

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/26/4/001

Recently long range correlations were detected in nucleotide sequences and in human writings by several authors. We undertake here a systematic investigation of two books, Moby Dick by H. Melville and Grimm's tales, with respect to the existence of long range correlations. The analysis is based on the calculation of entropy like quantities as the mutual information for pairs of letters and the entropy, the mean uncertainty, per letter. We further estimate the number of different subwords of a given length $n$. Filtering out the contributions due to the effects of the finite length of the texts, we find correlations ranging to a few hundred letters. Scaling laws for the mutual information (decay with a power law), for the entropy per letter (decay with the inverse square root of $n$) and for the word numbers (stretched exponential growth with $n$ and with a power law of the text length) were found.

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