“Pan Tadeusz”(“Mr. Thaddeus”) by A. Mickiewicz

본 논문은 컴퓨터 전산 시스템을 활용하여 텍스트의 표기를 경제적이고 효과적으로 운영하기 위한 방안을 연구한 것이다. 본 저자는 논문에서 그러한 방안을 “praxeology”라고 명명하였다. 즉 본인의 연구방안에 따르면 컴퓨터에 특정 단어의 일정부분을 입력시키면 뒷 부분은 굳이 쓰지 않아도 이미 컴퓨터가 자동으로 그 단어를 인지하여 자동으로 단어가 완성되는 시스템인 것이다. Praxeology의 효율성을 증명하기 위해 본인은 폴란드 민족시인 아담 미츠키에비츠의 서사시 <판 타데우쉬> 제 1장을 연구대상으로 설정하였다. 그 이유는 <판 타데우쉬>가 “폴란드 낭만주의 문학의 최고봉”이자 “폴란드 문학의 정수”라고 일컬어지는 작품으로 폴란드 인들에게 가장 널리 알려진 익숙한 작품이기 때문이다.

Through praxeology of an orthographic information we will understand such an artificial organization of an orthographic text that should be characterized by two factors: i) minimalisation of graphics elements of a text, ii) entire content equivalence of input and output (prepared) text In accordance with the mass conservation principle, there does not exist an absolute compression of orthographic information: by reducing information quantum in one place, we gather the same amount (perhaps of a different shape) in another place. A problem worth discussing, however, is such an organization of a information, so that it may be used for various purposes. An orthographic structure of a text for some purposes may be entirely unergonomic for other uses. The above mentioned places may, in specific conditions, “offer” unidentical benefits. For example, while creating, on computer hard drives, an index base referring a user to a specific place in a document, we reduce the disk space by creating artificial (i.e. recognizable for the used indexing device) indexes. The benefit is as follows: we reduce the access time to these documents, the loss, however, may be understood as decreasing the free disk space. Thus, we gain time at the cost of space. In the following work will be presented the method of so called “treeing” (resemblance of a Christmas tree) of graphic information (diacritisation1)). In a particular case lexical systems undergo treeing, therefore, for us, texts expressed in a natural language. One of the possible applications of the method is a possibility of compressing orthographic information so that the result allows a 100% perception of naturally registered input entries. In other words, while using the presented method, an erroneous perception of an analyzed text is not possible. Evidently, such a result (with a compression of the information space) will be obtained with the use of specific auxiliary devices. The main one will be so called a tree &#8211; a set of all diacritic sequences (compare below). The analysis will be performed on a specific material. In order to facilitate maximally the confrontation of our results with possible individual calculations, we refer to a popular text, the first book of Pan Tadeusz (Mr. Thaddeus) by A. Mickiewicz. All the operation illustrations, presented in this work, are taken from this text. Finally, it is worth adding that the aim of the analyses is reaching maximum communication effectiveness through a compression of a graphic message. It can be achieved with the use of rules of so called diacritological grammar (Wierzcho&#324; 2004). While presenting the principles of creating a tree, we mainly refer to this work; we do not analyse a number2) of implications of generally scientific or linguistic nature which arise from the analyses.