Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Entropy (linguistics)

Entropy (linguistics) was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete

Entropy (linguistics)

Article consists of one line that defines the wrong thing (thermodynamic entropy). But aside from being a redundant dictionary definition in its current shape, I'm concerned about whether this should exist at all: is entropy even a real concept in linguistics? The word is used with this link in two places in Wikipedia: Malayo-Polynesian languages and Austronesian languages, both defined on those pages with "the text is quite repetitive in terms of the frequency of sounds". This sounds more like information entropy to me, and dictionary.com gives no more specific definition for entropy that is related to linguistics. Fredrik | talk 13:15, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• It's computational linguistics, natural language processing, etc. They use Shannon's entropy, Sigma pi log2 pi. There may be more to say about it in the context of linguistics, but if the present entry is rubbish I think it's a good enough reason to delete. Entropy is when the transactional nature of the universe ceases due to the "equality" of everything. Bloody Norah, just delete the crap. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway ^Talk ]] 14:13, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• I can testify that statistical linguistics makes heavy use of entropy in the information-theoretic sense. Wikipedia could probably do with an article on it, but this is definitely not that article. Delete unless someone wipes it and makes a decent stub on linguistic entropy before the voting period is over. Pnot 01:01, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• merge to information entropy -- WhiteDragon 01:25, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete wrong kind of entropy Kappa 01:09, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete --Regebro 11:49, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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