Zipf's Law for Word Frequencies: Word Forms versus Lemmas in Long Texts.
Zipf's law is a fundamental paradigm in the statistics of written and spoken natural language as well as in other communication systems. We raise the question of the elementary units for which Zipf's law should hold in the most natural way, studying its validity for plain word forms and fo...
Main Authors: | Álvaro Corral, Gemma Boleda, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4497678?pdf=render |
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