How to recombine glyphs to increase character entropy?
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I spent some time browsing through the WayBackMachine page, but it does not seem to detail how the OKO encoding works: the page seems to be more about a word-structure model (something earlier than the crust-mantle-core model).

From what Stolfi says in the page linked by Rene, OKO appears to be close to an abjad:
Stolfi wrote:the EVA groups ch, sh, ee and the platform gallows are counted as single letters, and the symbols a o y e i are assumed to be part of the preceding letter.

The first part of the sentence is similar to how the Currier-D'Imperio, CUVA and other systems work. The second part suggests that (as in abjads) many of the most frequent glyphs ("sounds" in an abjad) are not encoded as independent symbols.

Also, I noticed that the histogram I attached in the previous post is based on word types, not tokens: daiin has the same weight as qopchody.

Overall, this is another area that I would like to be more familiar with: it seems clear that something interesting is happening. The relationship of this problem with the subject of this thread is not entirely clear: I think that tackling entropy increase on both text-with-spaces and text-without-spaces is sensible. Since increasing entropy likely implies producing shorter words (in the "with spaces" case), we should be aware that the resulting words will be even more clearly shorter than words in European languages. There might be other implications that escape me at the moment.
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RE: How to recombine glyphs to increase character entropy? - by MarcoP - 27-05-2020, 04:58 PM

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