scholarly journals Diversity of vocabulary and the harmonic series law of word-frequency distribution

1938 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 379-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Harmonic Series ◽  
Word Frequency Distribution

scholarly journals Statistical Analysis of Word Frequency Distribution in Lithuanian Texts of Different Genres

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Neringa Bružaitė ◽  
Tomas Rekašius
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
Distance Measure ◽  
Structural Type ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Jaccard Distance ◽  
Word Frequencies ◽  
Word Frequency Distribution

The paper examines Lithuanian texts of different authors and genres. The main points ofinterest – the number of words, the number of different words and word frequencies. Structural type distributionand Zipf’s law are applied for describing the frequency distribution of words in the text. It is obvious that thelexical diversity of any text can be defined by different words that are used in the text, also called vocabulary.It is shown that the information contained in a reduced vocabulary is enough for dividing the texts analyzedin this article into groups by genre and author using a hierarchical clustering method. In this case, distancesbetween clusters are measured using the Jaccard distance measure, and clusters are aggregated using the Wardmethod.

A Theory of Word-Frequency Distribution

Nature ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 178 (4545) ◽  
pp. 1308-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. PARKER-RHODES ◽  
T. JOYCE
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Word Frequency Distribution

scholarly journals From Boltzmann to Zipf through Shannon and Jaynes

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Corral ◽  
Montserrat García del Muro
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Statistical Physics ◽  
Maximum Entropy Principle ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Boltzmann Distribution ◽  
Zipf’S Law ◽  
Zipf's Law ◽  
Entropy Principle ◽  
Word Frequency Distribution

The word-frequency distribution provides the fundamental building blocks that generate discourse in natural language. It is well known, from empirical evidence, that the word-frequency distribution of almost any text is described by Zipf’s law, at least approximately. Following Stephens and Bialek (2010), we interpret the frequency of any word as arising from the interaction potentials between its constituent letters. Indeed, Jaynes’ maximum-entropy principle, with the constrains given by every empirical two-letter marginal distribution, leads to a Boltzmann distribution for word probabilities, with an energy-like function given by the sum of the all-to-all pairwise (two-letter) potentials. The so-called improved iterative-scaling algorithm allows us finding the potentials from the empirical two-letter marginals. We considerably extend Stephens and Bialek’s results, applying this formalism to words with length of up to six letters from the English subset of the recently created Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus. We find that the model is able to reproduce Zipf’s law, but with some limitations: the general Zipf’s power-law regime is obtained, but the probability of individual words shows considerable scattering. In this way, a pure statistical-physics framework is used to describe the probabilities of words. As a by-product, we find that both the empirical two-letter marginal distributions and the interaction-potential distributions follow well-defined statistical laws.

scholarly journals The Small-World of ‘Le Petit Prince’: Revisiting the Word Frequency Distribution

2016 ◽  
pp. fqw005
Author(s):  
Daniel Gamermann ◽  
Carmen Moret-Tatay ◽  
Esperanza Navarro-Pardo ◽  
Pedro Fernandez de Córdoba Castellá
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Small World ◽  
Word Frequency Distribution

scholarly journals Bayesian analysis of Word frequency distribution in context of Indian literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (05) ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
VASTOSHPATI SHASTRI ◽  
◽  
RAKESH RANJAN ◽  
PRAVEEN KUMAR TRIPATHI ◽  
S.K UPADHYAY, ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Analysis ◽  
Word Frequency ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Word Frequency Distribution
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