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Language Trees and Zipping

Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto, 2002. Physical Review Letters.

Uses data compression to measure how far apart two texts are, and applies the measure to recognizing languages, attributing authorship and building language family trees.

MYS08HTEHX052AX · mystery · click to copyMVoynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.048702Checked against the original0

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The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey gives it as the key citation for compression-based language classification.

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Benedetto, D., Caglioti, E., & Loreto, V. (2002). Language Trees and Zipping. Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.88.048702
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