A response to Richard Sproat on random systems, writing, and entropy

Lee, R. and Jonathan, P. and Ziman, P. (2010) A response to Richard Sproat on random systems, writing, and entropy. Computational Linguistics, 36 (4). pp. 791-794. ISSN 0891-2017

Abstract

In his article "Ancient symbols and computational linguistics" (Sproat 2010), Professor Sproat raised two concerns over a method that we have proposed for analyzing small data sets of symbols using entropy (Lee, Jonathan, and Ziman 2010): first, that the method is unable to detect random but non-equiprobable systems; and second, that it misclassifies kudurru texts.W e address these concerns in the following response. © 2010 Association for Computational Linguistics.