Random texts do not exhibit the real Zipf's law-like rank distribution.

Zipf's law states that the relationship between the frequency of a word in a text and its rank (the most frequent word has rank , the 2nd most frequent word has rank ,...) is approximately linear when plotted on a double logarithmic scale. It has been argued that the law is not a relevant or us...

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Main Authors: Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho, Brita Elvevåg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2834740?pdf=render