A Three-Parameter Rank-Frequency Relation in Natural Languages Article Swipe
Chenchen Ding
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Masao Utiyama
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Eiichiro Sumita
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· 2020
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.44
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.44
We present that, the rank-frequency relation in textual data follows f ∝ r-𝛼(r+𝛾)-𝛽, where f is the token frequency and r is the rank by frequency, with (𝛼, 𝛽, 𝛾) as parameters. The formulation is derived based on the empirical observation that d2 (x+y)/dx2 is a typical impulse function, where (x,y)=(log r, log f). The formulation is the power law when 𝛽=0 and the Zipf–Mandelbrot law when 𝛼=0. We illustrate that 𝛼 is related to the analytic features of syntax and 𝛽+𝛾 to those of morphology in natural languages from an investigation of multilingual corpora.
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