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physics.soc-ph2015★ 43 cited
Similarity of symbol frequency distributions with heavy tails
Martin Gerlach, Francesc Font-Clos, Eduardo G. Altmann
Quantifying the similarity between symbolic sequences is a traditional problem in Information Theory which requires comparing the frequencies of symbols in different sequences. In…
stat.AP2015★ 124 cited
Large-scale analysis of Zipf's law in English texts
Isabel Moreno-Sánchez, Francesc Font-Clos, Álvaro Corral
Despite being a paradigm of quantitative linguistics, Zipf's law for words suffers from three main problems: its formulation is ambiguous, its validity has not been tested rigorous…