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most citedText mixing shapes the anatomy of rank-frequency distributions: A modern Zipfian mechanics for natural language

34 citations · 107 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.chem-ph2023★ 2 cited

Von Mises Mixture Distributions for Molecular Conformation Generation

Kirk Swanson, Jake Williams, Eric Jonas

Molecules are frequently represented as graphs, but the underlying 3D molecular geometry (the locations of the atoms) ultimately determines most molecular properties. However, most…

cs.SI2022

Which tweets 'deserve' to be included in news stories? Chronemics of tweet embedding

Munif Ishad Mujib, Asta Zelenkauskaite, Jake Ryland Williams

The use and selection of user-generated social media content, specifically tweets, as a news source has become an integral part of news production practice. Yet, the mapping and th…

cs.CL2022

EigenNoise: A Contrastive Prior to Warm-Start Representations

Hunter Scott Heidenreich, Jake Ryland Williams

In this work, we present a naive initialization scheme for word vectors based on a dense, independent co-occurrence model and provide preliminary results that suggest it is competi…

cs.CL2022

To Know by the Company Words Keep and What Else Lies in the Vicinity

Jake Ryland Williams, Hunter Scott Heidenreich

The development of state-of-the-art (SOTA) Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems has steadily been establishing new techniques to absorb the statistics of linguistic data. Thes…

physics.soc-ph2020

A general solution to the preferential selection model

Jake Ryland Williams, Diana Solano-Oropeza, Jacob R. Hunsberger

We provide a general analytic solution to Herbert Simon's 1955 model for time-evolving novelty functions. This has far-reaching consequences: Simon's is a pre-cursor model for Bara…

cs.SI2020★ 1 cited

Investigating Coordinated 'Social' Targeting of High-Profile Twitter Accounts

Hunter Scott Heidenreich, Munif Ishad Mujib, Jake Ryland Williams

Following the 2016 US presidential election, there has been an increased focus on politically-motivated manipulation of mass-user behavior on social media platforms. Since a large…