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Statistical analysis of word flow among five Indo-European languages
Josué Ely Molina, Jorge Flores, Carlos Gershenson +1
A recent increase in data availability has allowed the possibility to perform different statistical linguistic studies. Here we use the Google Books Ngram dataset to analyze word f…
Language statistics at different spatial, temporal, and grammatical scales
Fernanda Sánchez-Puig, Rogelio Lozano-Aranda, Dante Pérez-Méndez +5
Statistical linguistics has advanced considerably in recent decades as data has become available. This has allowed researchers to study how statistical properties of languages chan…
Statistical Properties of Rankings in Sports and Games
José Antonio Morales, Jorge Flores, Carlos Gershenson +1
Any collection can be ranked. Sports and games are common examples of ranked systems: players and teams are constantly ranked using different methods. The statistical properties of…
Identifying tax evasion in Mexico with tools from network science and machine learning
Martin Zumaya, Rita Guerrero, Eduardo Islas +4
Mexico has kept electronic records of all taxable transactions since 2014. Anonymized data collected by the Mexican federal government comprises more than 80 million contributors (…
Dynamics of ranking
Gerardo Iñiguez, Carlos Pineda, Carlos Gershenson +1
Virtually anything can be and is ranked; people, institutions, countries, words, genes. Rankings reduce complex systems to ordered lists, reflecting the ability of their elements t…
Rank-frequency distribution of natural languages: a difference of probabilities approach
Germinal Cocho, R. F. Rodríguez, Sergio Sánchez +3
The time variation of the rank of words for six Indo-European languages is obtained using data from Google Books. For low ranks the distinct languages behave differently, maybe…
Rank dynamics of word usage at multiple scales
José A. Morales, Ewan Colman, Sergio Sánchez +6
The recent dramatic increase in online data availability has allowed researchers to explore human culture with unprecedented detail, such as the growth and diversification of langu…
Trajectory stability in the traveling salesman problem
Sergio Sánchez, Germinal Cocho, Jorge Flores +3
Two generalizations of the traveling salesman problem in which sites change their position in time are presented. The way the rank of different trajectory lengths changes in time i…
Universal temporal features of rankings in competitive sports and games
José A. Morales, Sergio Sánchez, Jorge Flores +5
Many complex phenomena, from the selection of traits in biological systems to hierarchy formation in social and economic entities, show signs of competition and heterogeneous perfo…
Rank diversity of languages: Generic behavior in computational linguistics
Germinal Cocho, Jorge Flores, Carlos Gershenson +2
Statistical studies of languages have focused on the rank-frequency distribution of words. Instead, we introduce here a measure of how word ranks change in time and call this distr…