3 papers
cs.CL2025
The Distribution of Dependency Distance and Hierarchical Distance in Contemporary Written Japanese and Its Influencing Factors
Linxuan Wang, Shuiyuan Yu
To explore the relationship between dependency distance (DD) and hierarchical distance (HD) in Japanese, we compared the probability distributions of DD and HD with and without sen…
cs.CL2020
Statistical patterns of word frequency suggesting the probabilistic nature of human languages
Shuiyuan Yu, Chunshan Xu, Haitao Liu
Traditional linguistic theories have largely regard language as a formal system composed of rigid rules. However, their failures in processing real language, the recent successes i…
cs.CL2018
Zipf's law in 50 languages: its structural pattern, linguistic interpretation, and cognitive motivation
Shuiyuan Yu, Chunshan Xu, Haitao Liu
Zipf's law has been found in many human-related fields, including language, where the frequency of a word is persistently found as a power law function of its frequency rank, known…