3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2002
Dynamics of text generation with realistic Zipf distribution
Damián H. Zanette, Marcelo A. Montemurro
We investigate the origin of Zipf's law for words in written texts by means of a stochastic dynamical model for text generation. The model incorporates both features related to the…
cond-mat.stat-mech2002
Long-range fractal correlations in literary corpora
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Pedro A. Pury
In this paper we analyse the fractal structure of long human-language records by mapping large samples of texts onto time series. The particular mapping set up in this work is insp…
cond-mat.stat-mech2001
Entropic analysis of the role of words in literary texts
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damian H. Zanette
Beyond the local constraints imposed by grammar, words concatenated in long sequences carrying a complex message show statistical regularities that may reflect their linguistic rol…