no code implementations • 30 Jun 2021 • Neus Català, Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-Cancho, Lluís Padró, Antoni Hernández-Fernández
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning distribution, relating the frequency of a word and its frequency rank, and the meaning-frequency law, relating the frequency of a word with its number of meanings.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2019 • Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries
The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2016 • Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries
However, such preference could be a side-effect of another bias: the preference of children for nouns in combination with the lower polysemy of nouns with respect to other part-of-speech categories.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2016 • Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Surprisingly, a double Zipf (a Zipf distribution with two regimes with a different exponent each) is the model yielding the best fit although it is the function with the largest number of parameters.
