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Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language
Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català +2
The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws. The most popular is Zipf…
Fast calculation of entropy with Zhang's estimator
Antoni Lozano, Bernardino Casas, Chris Bentz +1
Entropy is a fundamental property of a repertoire. Here, we present an efficient algorithm to estimate the entropy of types with the help of Zhang's estimator. The algorithm takes…
The polysemy of the words that children learn over time
Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho +2
Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learning in children. Words of low polysemy could be preferred as they reduce the disambiguation effort for the li…