Studying Lexical Dynamics and Language Change via Generalized Entropies: The Problem of Sample Size

Studying Lexical Dynamics and Language Change via Generalized Entropies: The Problem of Sample Size

Recently, it was demonstrated that generalized entropies of order α offer novel and important opportunities to quantify the similarity of symbol sequences where α is a free parameter. Varying this parameter makes it possible to magnify differences between different texts at specifi...

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Main Authors: Alexander Koplenig, Sascha Wolfer, Carolin Müller-Spitzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
generalized entropy
generalized divergence
Jensen–Shannon divergence
sample size
text length
Zipf’s law
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/5/464

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