Comment on Reply of Benedetto et al
We regret to point out several inaccurate and misleading statements that Benedetto {\em et al.} make in their Reply to our Comment on their paper titled ``Language Trees and Zipping''.
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Dmitry V. Khmelev
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On an Application of Relative Entropy
We describe general approach to classification of character sequences (texts, DNA) using relative entropy estimated by off-the-shelf compression and Markov Chains and find them precise enough. We also notice that the method for estimating relative entropy described in the paper cond-mat/0108530 "Language Trees..." by D. Benedetto et al. was considered earlier and was found to be easily surpassed by the simple and computationally effective first order Markov Chain approach.
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