A method for the comparison of general sequences via type-token ratio
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Vladimír Matlach
Abstract
This article proposes a new method for analyzing and comparing general linear sequences with the minimum prior knowledge on the sequences needed. Sequence analysis is a broad problem studied by various fields from sociology and computer security to linguistics or biology. The method presented here applies the simplest quantitative linguistic tools in order to achieve methods transparency and easily interpretable results. The results form a vector describing the sequence and allow their clustering, machine learning and simple visualizations by line charts or multidimensional methods as MDS or tSNE. For completeness, artifacts and several formal models are derived to describe methods behavior in both common and extreme cases.
Abstract
This article proposes a new method for analyzing and comparing general linear sequences with the minimum prior knowledge on the sequences needed. Sequence analysis is a broad problem studied by various fields from sociology and computer security to linguistics or biology. The method presented here applies the simplest quantitative linguistic tools in order to achieve methods transparency and easily interpretable results. The results form a vector describing the sequence and allow their clustering, machine learning and simple visualizations by line charts or multidimensional methods as MDS or tSNE. For completeness, artifacts and several formal models are derived to describe methods behavior in both common and extreme cases.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Part I. Theory and models 7
- On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech 9
- Term distance, frequency and collocations 21
- A method for the comparison of general sequences via type-token ratio 37
- Quantitative analysis of syllable properties in Croatian, Serbian, Russian, and Ukrainian 55
- N -grams of grammatical functions and their significant order in the Japanese clause 69
- Linking the dependents 93
- Grammar efficiency and the One-Meaning–One-Form Principle 109
- Distribution and characteristics of commonly used words across different texts in Japanese 121
- Part II. Empirical studies 135
- The perils of big data 137
- From distinguishability to informativity 145
- A Modern Greek readability tool 163
- Phonological properties as predictors of text success 177
- Calculating the victory chances 195
- Topological mapping for visualisation of high-dimensional historical linguistic data 209
- Book genre and author’s gender recognition based on titles 225
- Quantitative analysis of bibliographic corpora 239
- Analysis of English text genre classification based on dependency types 257
- In memory of Gabriel Altmann 271
- Index 277
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Part I. Theory and models 7
- On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech 9
- Term distance, frequency and collocations 21
- A method for the comparison of general sequences via type-token ratio 37
- Quantitative analysis of syllable properties in Croatian, Serbian, Russian, and Ukrainian 55
- N -grams of grammatical functions and their significant order in the Japanese clause 69
- Linking the dependents 93
- Grammar efficiency and the One-Meaning–One-Form Principle 109
- Distribution and characteristics of commonly used words across different texts in Japanese 121
- Part II. Empirical studies 135
- The perils of big data 137
- From distinguishability to informativity 145
- A Modern Greek readability tool 163
- Phonological properties as predictors of text success 177
- Calculating the victory chances 195
- Topological mapping for visualisation of high-dimensional historical linguistic data 209
- Book genre and author’s gender recognition based on titles 225
- Quantitative analysis of bibliographic corpora 239
- Analysis of English text genre classification based on dependency types 257
- In memory of Gabriel Altmann 271
- Index 277
