A new Morse code scheme optimized according to the statistical properties of Turkish

Morse code has been in use for more than 180 years, even though its currently known form is slightly different than the form defined by Morse and Vail. The code book constructed by Vail was optimized according to the statistical properties of English. In this study, we propose a new code book optimi...

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Published inElektrik : Turkish journal of electrical engineering & computer sciences
Main Authors ÇİÇEK, Emrah, YILMAZ, Asım Egemen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published TUBITAK 01.01.2013
Subjects
Information theory, source encoding, Morse code, language statistics, data compression
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Summary:Morse code has been in use for more than 180 years, even though its currently known form is slightly different than the form defined by Morse and Vail. The code book constructed by Vail was optimized according to the statistical properties of English. In this study, we propose a new code book optimized for Turkish and demonstrate that it is information-theoretically possible to achieve about a 10% improvement throughout the coding of Turkish texts by means of our proposal. The outcomes of this might serve as a basis for potential (academic and/or applied) Turkish language-specific lossless data compression studies.
Bibliography:http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/tbtkelektrik/article/view/5000019768
ISSN:1300-0632
1303-6203
DOI:10.3906/elk-1110-11