@inproceedings{lemke-etal-2017-optimal,
title = "Optimal encoding! - Information Theory constrains article omission in newspaper headlines",
author = "Lemke, Robin and
Horch, Eva and
Reich, Ingo",
editor = "Lapata, Mirella and
Blunsom, Phil and
Koller, Alexander",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers",
month = apr,
year = "2017",
address = "Valencia, Spain",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/E17-2021/",
pages = "131--135",
abstract = "In this paper we pursue the hypothesis that the distribution of article omission specifically is constrained by principles of Information Theory (Shannon 1948). In particular, Information Theory predicts a stronger preference for article omission before nouns which are relatively unpredictable in context of the preceding words. We investigated article omission in German newspaper headlines with a corpus and acceptability rating study. Both support our hypothesis: Articles are inserted more often before unpredictable nouns and subjects perceive article omission before predictable nouns as more well-formed than before unpredictable ones. This suggests that information theoretic principles constrain the distribution of article omission in headlines."
}
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%T Optimal encoding! - Information Theory constrains article omission in newspaper headlines
%A Lemke, Robin
%A Horch, Eva
%A Reich, Ingo
%Y Lapata, Mirella
%Y Blunsom, Phil
%Y Koller, Alexander
%S Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers
%D 2017
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Valencia, Spain
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%X In this paper we pursue the hypothesis that the distribution of article omission specifically is constrained by principles of Information Theory (Shannon 1948). In particular, Information Theory predicts a stronger preference for article omission before nouns which are relatively unpredictable in context of the preceding words. We investigated article omission in German newspaper headlines with a corpus and acceptability rating study. Both support our hypothesis: Articles are inserted more often before unpredictable nouns and subjects perceive article omission before predictable nouns as more well-formed than before unpredictable ones. This suggests that information theoretic principles constrain the distribution of article omission in headlines.
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%P 131-135
Markdown (Informal)
[Optimal encoding! - Information Theory constrains article omission in newspaper headlines](https://aclanthology.org/E17-2021/) (Lemke et al., EACL 2017)
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