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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by laurencea on Friday December 30, 2016 @08:18AM (#13284205)
Author here, happy to answer questions!
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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by ikeboy on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:28AM (#13285161)
Why did it take two years from submission to publication: is that normal?
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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by canjobear on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:55AM (#13285354)
There are many ways to derive Zipf's Law. Does yours make any novel predictions about systems that exhivit this behavior?
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Re:Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Un... by CephalopodMD on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:00PM (#13287847)
If you read the introduction, it does. In particular, it explains how normalizing for parts of speech (all nouns, verbs, etc) zipf's law does not emerge. This method predicts that phenomenon as parts of speech being a latent variable, which they do not believe other models can do.
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