Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation

Shah, Asadullah and Saidin, Aznan Zuhid and Taha Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri and Zeki, Akram M. (2011) Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation. In: 12th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2011), 19 - 21 July 2011, IIUM. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) is a language spoken in Malaysia and many countries around it. It has rich literature and deep roots in culture. Bahasa Melayu language uses roman character set (i.e.A-Z) identical to English language. The written language uses the character set as building blocks to build word, sentences and phrases along with special punctuations and signs to create documents of interest. In this paper, results of preliminary investigation of Malay text documents are provided. For this purpose scanning of articles written upon various topics in Malay were carried out. Approximately 31 thousand characters from different articles are scanned. Preliminary observations indicate that on average, character “A” occurs 19%, character “N” occur 10%, character “E” occur “9%”and character “I” 8% in text. However, it is also observed from the data that, these are the characters from over all set with highest frequencies of occurances and it is expected that during further investigation they will remain as higher frequency occurring characters. Furthermore, the results indicate that for Bahasa Melayu characters appearance in text is very close in character frequencies of Bahasa Indonesia, but having different appearance of characters than English language. The investigation also indicate that these two languages, Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia share close phonetic structure but not English, though all three use same character set

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Additional Information:	6566/2933
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > PL5101 Malay
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Prof Asadullah Shah
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2012 11:32
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2020 15:45
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/2933

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