Investigating Esperanto's statistical proportions relative to other languages using neural networks and Zipf's law

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 102-108

  Manaris, Bill ^a   Pellicoro, Luca ^a   Pothering, George ^a   Hodges, Harland ^a  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Classification; Natural language processing; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ESPERANTO'S STATISTICAL PROPORTIONS; STATISTICAL PROPORTIONS; ZIPF'S LAW;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049126325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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