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physics.soc-ph2014★ 36 cited
Extracting information from S-curves of language change
Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Martin Gerlach, Jose M. Miotto +1
It is well accepted that adoption of innovations are described by S-curves (slow start, accelerating period, and slow end). In this paper, we analyze how much information on the dy…
physics.soc-ph2014★ 77 cited
Scaling laws and fluctuations in the statistics of word frequencies
Martin Gerlach, Eduardo G. Altmann
In this paper we combine statistical analysis of large text databases and simple stochastic models to explain the appearance of scaling laws in the statistics of word frequencies.…