brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan) (05/29/86)
Hi, I'm interested in compressing English text for data transmission. It sounds like a useful thing to do if you're transmitting lots of the stuff like wire services etc do. I know there's lots of DATA compression techniques, but I'm sure I can recall that there exist nice techniques for compressing TEXT by 50% or more. I'd be grateful if someone can E-mail me some info or give me a pointer to a paper or book which discusses this. Thanks -- Made in New Zealand --> Brent Callaghan AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ {ihnp4|mtuxo|pegasus}!poseidon!brent (201) 576-3475