Variation in the vocabulary of Russian literary texts
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We study the variation of word frequencies in Russian literary texts. Our findings indicate that the standard deviation of a word’s frequency across texts depends on its average frequency according to a power law with exponent 0.62, showing that the rarer words have a relatively larger degree of frequency volatility (i.e., “burstiness”). Several latent factors models have been estimated to investigate the structure of the word frequency distribution. The dependence of a word’s frequency volatility on its average frequency can be explained by the asymmetry in the distribution of latent factors.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1503.00339 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015