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Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Laurance R. Doyle, Brenda McCowan, Simon Johnston et al., 2011. Acta Astronautica.
Applies information theory, including Zipf's law and conditional entropy, to animal communication, and proposes the same measures as a filter for signals from other intelligences.
What it's used for here
The bioinformatics and signal-processing survey lists it among ways of asking whether a sequence carries language-like structure.
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SRCSignal processing
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Doyle, L. R., McCowan, B., Johnston, S., & Hanser, S. F. (2011). Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Acta Astronautica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018
@article{doyle2011information,
author = {Doyle, Laurance R. and McCowan, Brenda and Johnston, Simon and Hanser, Sean F.},
title = {Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence},
journal = {Acta Astronautica},
year = {2011},
doi = {10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018}
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Doyle, Laurance R. et al.. “Information theory, animal communication, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.” Acta Astronautica (2011). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.11.018.