Building a linguistic corpus from bee dance data
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This paper discusses the problems and possibility of collecting bee dance data in a linguistic corpus and use linguistic instruments such as Zipf’s law and entropy statistics to decide on the question whether the dance carries information of any kind. We describe this against the historical background of attempts to analyse nonhuman communication systems.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره cs.CL/0406054 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004