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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Ferrer Cancho, Ramon|||0000-0002-7820-923X
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
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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.