Character Frequency

Article View: comp.text

Article #4708

#4708

From: Robert Dale
Date: Thu, 12 May 1988 11:13

17 lines
1037 bytes

Does anyone know of any work that has looked at the relative
frequencies of non-alphanumeric characters in text?  For example, are
colons more frequent than semi-colons?  Are apostrophes more common
than commas?  And so on.  Of course, this is bound to vary depending
on the kind of text looked at (mathematical text will obviously have
more mathematical characters than non-mathematical texts, for
example), but any pointers to statistics in this area would be of
interest.

R

-- 
Robert Dale					| University of Edinburgh
UUCP:	...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!epistemi!rda	| Centre for Cognitive Science
ARPA:	rda%epistemi.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk  | 2 Buccleuch Place
JANET:	rda@uk.ac.ed.epistemi			| Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland

Technical Details

Message-ID: <442@epistemi.ed.ac.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!epistemi!rda

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!epistemi!rda
From: rda@epistemi.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Character Frequency
Message-ID: <442@epistemi.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 12 May 88 11:13:43 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
Lines: 17