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A minimal base or a direct base? That is the question!
Jaume Baixeries, Amedeo Napoli
In this paper we revisit the problem of computing the closure of a set of attributes given a basis of dependencies or implications. This problem is of main interest in logics, in t…
Database Dependencies and Formal Concept Analysis
Jaume Baixeries
This is an account of the characterization of database dependencies with Formal Concept Analysis.
Zipf's laws of meaning in Catalan
Neus Català, Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-Cancho +2
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning d…
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…
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…
When is Menzerath-Altmann law mathematically trivial? A new approach
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries +2
Menzerath's law, the tendency of Z, the mean size of the parts, to decrease as X, the number of parts, increases is found in language, music and genomes. Recently, it has been argu…
The challenges of statistical patterns of language: the case of Menzerath's law in genomes
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Núria Forns, Antoni Hernández-Fernández +2
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's law is perhaps the most popular case, recently, Menzerath's law has begun to be in…
The parameters of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes
Jaume Baixeries, Antoni Hernandez-Fernandez, Nuria Forns +1
The relationship between the size of the whole and the size of the parts in language and music is known to follow Menzerath-Altmann law at many levels of description (morphemes, wo…