3 papers
cs.CL2026
Quadratic Term Correction on Heaps' Law
Oscar Fontanelli, Wentian Li
Heaps' or Herdan's law characterizes the word-type vs. word-token relation by a power-law function, which is concave in linear-linear scale but a straight line in log-log scale. Ho…
cs.CL2026
Non-Zipfian Distribution of Stopwords or Function Words and Subset Selection Models
Wentian Li, Oscar Fontanelli
Stopwords and function words are relatively less informative for the content of a language and more often play a structural role in a sentence. Stopwords are ubiquitous words and m…
physics.soc-ph2026
Modeling Two-Scale Rank Distributions via Redistribution Dynamics or an Analytic Derivation of the Beta Rank Function
Oscar Fontanelli, Wentian Li
Beta Rank Function (BRF) is a two-sided distribution characterized by a smooth peak and double powerlaw decay, widely used to model empirical data exhibiting deviations from pure p…