Exploring Linguistic Entropy: Correlating Entropy Values and Language Resources in the European Union

The paper provides examination of linguistic entropy, a statistical metric that measures information content in textual data. Investigation extends beyond overall entropy assessments, delving into conditional entropies and considering the significance of word order. The central inquiries revolve around establishing relationships between the official languages of the European Union and their respective entropy values, with an intriguing exploration into entropy correlation based on linguistic characteristics of languages.The minimum corpus size required for this topic is identified. The amount of entropy depends on vocabulary size, therefore, for the consistency of the results, parliamentary discussions and debates are the topics of all corpora (source: Clarin and Sketch Engine). This approach, encompassing entropy analysis and resource development, combining linguistics, information theory and computer technology contributes to a comprehensive understanding of linguistic diversity within the European Union.Another aspect of this paper involves an exploration of the current state of language technology for the official EU languages, both low-entropy and high-entropy languages. The attempt will be made to establish a correlation between the quantity of produced language resources for a given language and its classification as either high-entropy or low-entropy.