04-12-2024, 12:33 AM
One can of course do several things, and as usual it is unpractical to try everyting.
Giving more weight to frequent words in the score can be achieved by not counting the number of word types, but word tokens. So if a word occurs 200 times, count it as 200.
Alternatively, one can leave words that appear only once out of consideration altogether.
One could make refinements using conditional slots. Example: a certain slot can only be used if a certain other slot is also used. Or the opposite: a certain slot cannot be used if a certain other slot is also used. This immediately makes it considerably more complicated. But I have a feeling that this would improve the success.
The real mystery is IMHO that all this is not supposed to exist.
Which language exhibits a slot structure?
There are examples in other areas, e.g. the trivial case of numbers. You just need four (identical) slots to cover the numbers 1 - 9999. Trivial of course, but it becomes more interesting when using the Greek or Arabic numbering systems that uses letters of the alpbahet.
Even more interesting are Roman numerals, which would benefit from the conditional slots mentioned above.
The one thing I am reasonable certain about is that the MS text was not created by someone setting up a slot system and actually using it to generate the words.
It should have been something else that ended up being equivalent.
This works both for meaningful and meaningless text.
Giving more weight to frequent words in the score can be achieved by not counting the number of word types, but word tokens. So if a word occurs 200 times, count it as 200.
Alternatively, one can leave words that appear only once out of consideration altogether.
One could make refinements using conditional slots. Example: a certain slot can only be used if a certain other slot is also used. Or the opposite: a certain slot cannot be used if a certain other slot is also used. This immediately makes it considerably more complicated. But I have a feeling that this would improve the success.
The real mystery is IMHO that all this is not supposed to exist.
Which language exhibits a slot structure?
There are examples in other areas, e.g. the trivial case of numbers. You just need four (identical) slots to cover the numbers 1 - 9999. Trivial of course, but it becomes more interesting when using the Greek or Arabic numbering systems that uses letters of the alpbahet.
Even more interesting are Roman numerals, which would benefit from the conditional slots mentioned above.
The one thing I am reasonable certain about is that the MS text was not created by someone setting up a slot system and actually using it to generate the words.
It should have been something else that ended up being equivalent.
This works both for meaningful and meaningless text.