From: Yvan Dutil (Yvan.Dutil@sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 18:02:46 PST
Hi John,
I am very glad to have your input. Actuallay, we plan to implement your
statistical tools in our "decoding" program. Knowing that it worked with
your method is a good news.
Yvan
"john.elliott" a écrit :
> Greetings all
>
> In response to Larry Klaes' recent email pointing towards the New Scientist
> article, "Alien" message tests human decoders, I thought I should include my
> quick, first pass analysis (deadline of 5 days due to conference) of the
> signal.
>
> I looked at the bit-stream last month (Yvan sent me a copy as we were both
> on the message construction workshop in Toulouse) and have already published
> a paper in computational linguistics, stating that the bit-stream is an
> image:
> The SETI Challenge, in Proceedings of the 5th Annual CLUK Colloquium:
> Computational Linguistics in the United Kingdom, University of Leeds.
> However, I stopped at this stage as I am interested in linguistic issues and
> encoding one structure (language) within another (an image) only serves to
> complicate matters and 'freeze' the content. It was also reasonably obvious
> that information had been simulated as lost, as the number of bits in the
> stream is a prime number. Nevertheless an interesting exercise and much
> still needs to be done.
>
> Still searching,
>
> John
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