On the universality of Zipf's law for word frequencies
It is hard to imagine how the development of quantitative linguistics would have been after G.K. Zipf’s untimely death without the work of G. Altmann. This article aims to honour a living giant of the Zipfian school of linguistics, and presents some findings that contradict the opening statement of...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2007 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/178810 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/178810 https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110894219.131 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Computational linguistics Zipf’s law Lingüística computacional Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural |
| Sumario: | It is hard to imagine how the development of quantitative linguistics would have been after G.K. Zipf’s untimely death without the work of G. Altmann. This article aims to honour a living giant of the Zipfian school of linguistics, and presents some findings that contradict the opening statement of Miller & Chomsky that has undermined Altmann’s scientific tradition for decades. |
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