Similarities and dissimilarities between character frequencies of written text of Melayu, English and Indonesian languages

Shah, Asadullah and Saidin, Aznan Zuhid and Alshaikhli, Imad Fakhri Taha and Zeki, Akram M. and Bhatti, Zeeshan (2013) Similarities and dissimilarities between character frequencies of written text of Melayu, English and Indonesian languages. In: 2103 International Conference of Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies (ACSAT), 23-24 Dec. 2013, Kuching, Sarawak.

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Abstract

This research paper present some statistical similarities and dissimilarities between the character frequencies of three languages, Malay, Indonesian and English. Thew reason for their comparison is that they all share a common symbol set ?(A-Z). It has been found, through investigations that statistically Malay and Indonesian languages character frequencies are very close to each other. For example, character "A" "N", and "E" in both Malay and Indonesian languages have frequencies (19%, 20.4%), (Q10%, 9.33%) and (9%, 8.28%), respectively. However the case of English is different, where characters "E", "T" and "A" come with three highest frequencies occurring letters, respectively. An intresting observation is that in spite of some similarities and dissimilarities between the characters, all three languages follow envelop of the frequencies identically rising and falling trend for all characters. Moreover, for all three languages, last four characters, W, x,y,z" , also exhibit lowest usage in their respective languages.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Additional Information:	6566/37045
Uncontrolled Keywords:	-component; Character Frequency; Malayu; Indonesian
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) > T10.5 Communication of technical information
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Information System Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Information System
Depositing User:	Prof Asadullah Shah
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2014 09:07
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2021 12:44
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/37045

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