Variation of Zipf's exponent in one hundred live languages: a study of the holy Bible translations

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2017.05.061zbMath1376.91141OpenAlexW2620833468MaRDI QIDQ1681868

Maryam Jamaati, Ali Mehri

Publication date: 24 November 2017

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2017.05.061

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinearitytext miningZipf's lawhuman languagelong-rang correlation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Linguistics (91F20) Computing methodologies for text processing; mathematical typography (68U15)

Uses Software

• plfit

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