Entropy in Computational Linguistics
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Theory, Probability and Statistics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 1128
Special Issue Editor
Interests: end-user document handling; developing computational thinking skills; didactics of informatics; computer-aided teaching; subject integration
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Dear Colleagues,
Digital text management—including digital-born and digitized text-based documents—is one of the most popular but less researched fields of computational linguistics. It has, however, emerged that, in general terms, the use of digital artifacts may also be negative and detrimental to sustainable development. Specifically: (1) both end-users and professionals are involved (professionals at many different levels); (2) both the creation and the modification of these documents generate waste in terms of time, information, human and machine resources; (3) neither end-users nor professionals are aware of these losses, their lack of knowledge, and their inefficient and ineffective working processes; and (4) the effects of chatbots on both the reading comprehension of end-users and on the cohesion of texts should be studied further.
Thanks to recent developments, the entropy and sustainability rate of digital text-based documents can measure these losses. The ultimate goals of these studies and this Special Issue are to gather together papers that deal with the reduction or elimination of the waste generated in text management, open new opportunities in this special field of computational linguistics, find further objective measures that clearly present the problems with which we are faced, and offer solutions to overcome these issues.
Dr. Maria Csernoch
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- digital texts
- word processors
- end-users
- measuring the entropy of digital texts
- digital sustainability
- effectiveness
- efficiency
- digital education
- lean computing
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