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Are crossing dependencies really scarce?
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gomez-Rodriguez, J. L. Esteban
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be modelled as a tree, where vertices correspond to words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies. It has been claimed recurrently that…
Optimization models of natural communication
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
A family of information theoretic models of communication was introduced more than a decade ago to explain the origins of Zipf's law for word frequencies. The family is a based on…
Zipf's law for word frequencies: word forms versus lemmas in long texts
Alvaro Corral, Gemma Boleda, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Zipf's law is a fundamental paradigm in the statistics of written and spoken natural language as well as in other communication systems. We raise the question of the elementary uni…
Networks in Cognitive Science
Andrea Baronchelli, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras +2
Networks of interconnected nodes have long played a key role in Cognitive Science, from artificial neural net- works to spreading activation models of semantic mem- ory. Recently,…
Universal Complex Structures in Written Language
Alvaro Corral, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Gemma Boleda +2
Quantitative linguistics has provided us with a number of empirical laws that characterise the evolution of languages and competition amongst them. In terms of language usage, one…