TY - GEN
T1 - Applications and Explanations of Zipf's Law
AU - Powers, David M.W.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Recently I have been intrigued by the reappearance of an old ftiend, George Kingsley Zipf, in a number of not entirely expected places. The law named for him is ubiquitous, but Zipf did not actually discover the law so much as provide a plausible explanation. Others have proposed modifications to Zipfs Law, and closer examination uncovers systematic deviations from its normative form. We demonstrate how Zipfs analysis can be extended to include some of these phenomena.
AB - Recently I have been intrigued by the reappearance of an old ftiend, George Kingsley Zipf, in a number of not entirely expected places. The law named for him is ubiquitous, but Zipf did not actually discover the law so much as provide a plausible explanation. Others have proposed modifications to Zipfs Law, and closer examination uncovers systematic deviations from its normative form. We demonstrate how Zipfs analysis can be extended to include some of these phenomena.
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UR - https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7617502?keyword=0725806346
UR - https://aclanthology.org/W98-1218.pdf
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052586075
T3 - Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998
SP - 151
EP - 160
BT - Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998
A2 - Powers, David M. W.
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 1998 Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998
Y2 - 11 January 1998 through 17 January 1998
ER -