Figure 1: Intuitive illustration of a variety of successive tokens and a word boundary mentation by formalizing the uncertainty of successive tokens via the branching entropy (which we mathematically de ne in the next section). Our intention in this paper is above all to study the fundamental and scienti c statistical property underlying language data, so that it can be applied to language engineering. The above assumption (A) dates back to the fundamental work done by Harris (Harris, 1955), where he says that when the number of di erent tokens coming after every pre x of a word marks.
