Cognitive scale-free networks as a model for intermittency in human natural language.

DOI10.1142/9789812702746_0009zbMATH Open1191.68742arXivcond-mat/0311314OpenAlexW3101285300MaRDI QIDQ3576017FDOQ3576017

Authors: P. Allegrini, Paolo Grigolini, Luigi Palatella 

Publication date: 28 July 2010

Published in: Thinking in Patterns (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We model certain features of human language complexity by means of advanced concepts borrowed from statistical mechanics. Using a time series approach, the diffusion entropy method (DE), we compute the complexity of an Italian corpus of newspapers and magazines. We find that the anomalous scaling index is compatible with a simple dynamical model, a random walk on a complex scale-free network, which is linguistically related to Saussurre's paradigms. The model yields the famous Zipf's law in terms of the generalized central limit theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311314

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Natural language processing (68T50) Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B99)

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