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physics.soc-ph2015★ 43 cited
Similarity of symbol frequency distributions with heavy tails
Martin Gerlach, Francesc Font-Clos, Eduardo G. Altmann
Quantifying the similarity between symbolic sequences is a traditional problem in Information Theory which requires comparing the frequencies of symbols in different sequences. In…
physics.soc-ph2015★ 78 cited
Statistical laws in linguistics
Eduardo G. Altmann, Martin Gerlach
Zipf's law is just one out of many universal laws proposed to describe statistical regularities in language. Here we review and critically discuss how these laws can be statistical…