Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation

Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) is a language spoken in Malaysia and many countries around it. It has rich literature and deep roots in culture. Bahasa Melayu language uses roman character set (i.e.A-Z) identical to English language. The written language uses the character set as building blocks to...

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Main Authors:	Shah, Asadullah, Saidin, Aznan Zuhid, Taha, Imad, Zeki, Akram M.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL5101 Malay
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spelling	iium-29332014-12-09T02:47:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2933/ Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation Shah, Asadullah Saidin, Aznan Zuhid Taha, Imad Zeki, Akram M. PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL5101 Malay Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) is a language spoken in Malaysia and many countries around it. It has rich literature and deep roots in culture. Bahasa Melayu language uses roman character set (i.e.A-Z) identical to English language. The written language uses the character set as building blocks to build word, sentences and phrases along with special punctuations and signs to create documents of interest. In this paper, results of preliminary investigation of Malay text documents are provided. For this purpose scanning of articles written upon various topics in Malay were carried out. Approximately 31 thousand characters from different articles are scanned. Preliminary observations indicate that on average, character “A” occurs 19%, character “N” occur 10%, character “E” occur “9%”and character “I” 8% in text. However, it is also observed from the data that, these are the characters from over all set with highest frequencies of occurances and it is expected that during further investigation they will remain as higher frequency occurring characters. Furthermore, the results indicate that for Bahasa Melayu characters appearance in text is very close in character frequencies of Bahasa Indonesia, but having different appearance of characters than English language. The investigation also indicate that these two languages, Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia share close phonetic structure but not English, though all three use same character set 2011-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2933/1/Poster-asadullah_aznan.ppt Shah, Asadullah and Saidin, Aznan Zuhid and Taha, Imad and Zeki, Akram M. (2011) Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation. In: 12th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2011), 19 - 21 July 2011, IIUM. (Unpublished) http://kict.iium.edu.my/pacling/index.html
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topic	PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL5101 Malay
spellingShingle	PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL5101 Malay Shah, Asadullah Saidin, Aznan Zuhid Taha, Imad Zeki, Akram M. Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation
description	Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) is a language spoken in Malaysia and many countries around it. It has rich literature and deep roots in culture. Bahasa Melayu language uses roman character set (i.e.A-Z) identical to English language. The written language uses the character set as building blocks to build word, sentences and phrases along with special punctuations and signs to create documents of interest. In this paper, results of preliminary investigation of Malay text documents are provided. For this purpose scanning of articles written upon various topics in Malay were carried out. Approximately 31 thousand characters from different articles are scanned. Preliminary observations indicate that on average, character “A” occurs 19%, character “N” occur 10%, character “E” occur “9%”and character “I” 8% in text. However, it is also observed from the data that, these are the characters from over all set with highest frequencies of occurances and it is expected that during further investigation they will remain as higher frequency occurring characters. Furthermore, the results indicate that for Bahasa Melayu characters appearance in text is very close in character frequencies of Bahasa Indonesia, but having different appearance of characters than English language. The investigation also indicate that these two languages, Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia share close phonetic structure but not English, though all three use same character set
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Shah, Asadullah Saidin, Aznan Zuhid Taha, Imad Zeki, Akram M.
author_facet	Shah, Asadullah Saidin, Aznan Zuhid Taha, Imad Zeki, Akram M.
author_sort	Shah, Asadullah
title	Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation
title_short	Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation
title_full	Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation
title_fullStr	Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation
title_full_unstemmed	Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation
title_sort	frequencies determination of characters for bahasa melayu: results of preliminary investigation
publishDate	2011
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Frequencies determination of characters for Bahasa Melayu: results of preliminary investigation

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