• DOI:10.1002/asi.21033
Corpus ID: 16507833

The frequency spectrum of finite samples from the intermittent silence process

@article{FerreriCancho2009TheFS,
  title={The frequency spectrum of finite samples from the intermittent silence process},
  author={R. Ferrer-i-Cancho and R. Gavald{\`a}},
  journal={J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.},
  year={2009},
  volume={60},
  pages={837-843}
}

• R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. Gavaldà
• Published 2009
• Computer Science
• J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.

It has been argued that the actual distribution of word frequencies could be reproduced or explained by generating a random sequence of letters and spaces according to the so-called intermittent silence process. The same kind of process could reproduce or explain the counts of other kinds of units from a wide range of disciplines. Taking the linguistic metaphor, we focus on the frequency spectrum, i.e. the number of words with a certain frequency, and the vocabulary size, i.e. the number of… Expand