Makoto Yamazaki
List of John Benjamins publications in which Makoto Yamazaki is involved.
Articles
2025 Analyzing Japanese texts with evaluation of randomness in binary expression Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos (eds.), pp. 81–89 | Chapter
Quantitative evaluation of the randomness of binary sequences is essential in the development of a random number generator (RNG), which is a crucial technology for encrypted communication. The same technique used in that field may be applicable to statistical analyses of natural language texts.… read more
2021 Distribution and characteristics of commonly used words across different texts in Japanese Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros (eds.), pp. 121–134 | Chapter
In this chapter, I survey the frequency distribution of commonly used words across different texts in Japanese. Using the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, we examined the distribution. The results show the following. (1) The distribution draws a curve similar to Zipf’s law, but… read more