Beyond the Zipf–Mandelbrot law in quantitative linguistics
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Beyond the Zipf-Mandelbrot law in quantitative linguistics
In this paper the Zipf-Mandelbrot law is revisited in the context of linguistics. Despite its widespread popularity the Zipf–Mandelbrot law can only describe the statistical behaviour of a rather restricted fraction of the total number of words contained in some given corpus. In particular, we focus our attention on the important deviations that become statistically relevant as larger corpora a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0378-4371
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(01)00355-7