Information content versus word length in random typing
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چکیده
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho and Fermı́n Moscoso del Prado Mart́ın 1 Complexity & Quantitative Linguistics Lab Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, TALP Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici Omega Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3. 08034 Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain) 2 Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (UMR6146) CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université I, Marseille, France 3 Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR5596) CNRS & Université de Lyon II, Lyon, France 4 Institut Rhône-Alpin de Systèmes Complexes, Lyon, France
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1209.1751 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012