About compression of vocabulary in computer oriented languages
## 컴퓨터 언어, 피진어처럼 단순화하면 효율이 높아질까? 컴퓨터 언어의 효율성을 높이는 방법은 무엇일까요? 이 논문은 물리학의 흥미로운 개념을 빌려와 이 질문에 답합니다. 우리가 일상에서 쓰는 자연어는 정보 전달의 신뢰성을 위해 '과잉성'을 가집니다. 유의어, 문법적 중복 표현 등이 대표적이죠. 하지만 컴퓨터 언어에서는
About compression of vocabulary in computer oriented languages arXiv:cs/0303002v2 [cs.CL] 21 Mar 2003 About compression of vocabulary in computer oriented languages V. P. Maslov Abstract The author uses the entropy of the ideal Bose-Einstein gas to min- imize losses in computer-oriented languages. Natural languages have the property of being excessive, and this exces- siveness is important from the viewpoint of reliability of information trans- mission. The excessiveness manifests itself in doubling the grammatical or lexical tools in transmission of the sense of statements. So, at lexical level, the synonymy in natural languages is highly developed, i.e., the language contains many words and word-combinations with closely related meanings. At grammar level, the meanings are doubled in grammatical forms of differ- ent parts of the statement. For instance, in Russian, the person is given by both a pronoun and the ending of a verb in the Present tense, the spatial meaning of a noun is given by both the case ending and a preposition, etc. The excessiveness is especially typical of natural languages of synthetic type where a single word combines several morphological units expressing one or other meaning (i.e., the root, suffices, prefices, endings; all these parts of the word bear definite meanings). Such languages comprise, for instance, Russian, Hungarian, Baltic languages. Usually, in languages of this type, the system of cases is highly developed, for instance, there are 6 cases in Russian and more than 20 cases in Hungarian. The case endings allow one to express delicate spati