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Natural language processing (NLP)

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Infer probabilities, for concatenation of words

Fix an alphabet $\Sigma$, and a set of words, $W = \{w_1,\dots,w_n\} \subseteq \Sigma^*$. I have a randomized model that works like this: Alice generates a random sequence of words, using some probab …
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Estimate entropy, based upon observed frequency counts

Suppose I have $n$ independent observations $x_1,\dots,x_n$ from some unknown distribution over a known alphabet $\Sigma$, and I want to estimate the entropy of the distribution. I can count the freq …
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