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The meta book and s...
The meta book and size-dependent properties of written language
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- Bernhardsson, Sebastian, 1980- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik
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- Correa da Rocha, Luis Enrique, 1981- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik
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- Minnhagen, Petter, 1946- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för fysik
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- 2009-12-10
- 2009
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: New Journal of Physics. - Bristol : Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). - 1367-2630. ; 11
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Abstract
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- Evidence is given for a systematic text-length dependence of the power-law index $\gamma$ of a single book. The estimated $\gamma$ values are consistent with a monotonic decrease from 2 to 1 with increasing length of a text. A direct connection to an extended Heap's lawis explored. The infinite book limit is, as a consequence, proposed to be given by $\gamma = 1$ instead of the value $\gamma=2$ expected if the Zipf's law was ubiquitously applicable. In addition we explore the idea that the systematic text-length dependence can be described by a meta book concept, which is an abstract representation reflecting the word-frequency structure of a text. According to this concept the word-frequency distribution of a text, with a certain length written by a single author, has the same characteristics as a text of the same length pulled out from an imaginary complete infinite corpus written by the same author.
Ämnesord
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Quantitative linguistics
- word frequencies
- size dependencies
- meta book
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