Humans Outperform Machines at the Bilingual Shannon Game
We provide an upper bound for the amount of information a human translator adds to an original text, i.e., how many bits of information we need to store a translation, given the original. We do this by creating a Bilingual Shannon Game that elicits character guesses from human subjects, then develop...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/1/15 |