Entropy and Average Mutual Information for a 'Choseong', a 'Jungseong', and a 'Jongseong' of a Korean Syllable

한글 음절의 초성, 중성, 종성 단위의 발생확률, 엔트로피 및 평균상호정보량

  • Published : 1989.09.01

Abstract

A Korean syllable is regarded as a random variable according to its probabilistic property in occurrence. A Korean syllable is divided into a 'choseong', a 'jungseong', and a 'jongseong' which are regarded as random variables. From the cumulative freaquency of a Korean syllable all possible joint probabilities and conditional probabilities are computed for the three ramdom variables. From the joint probabilities and the conditional probabilities all possible joint entropies and conditional entropies are computed for the three random varibles. Also all possible average mutual informations are calculated for the three random variables. Average mutual informatin between two random variables hss its biggest value between choseong and jungseong. Average mutual information between a random variable and other two random variables has its biggest value between jungseong and choseong-jongseong.

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