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Heaps' law

Known as: Heaps law, Herdan's law 
In linguistics, Heaps' law (also called Herdan's law) is an empirical law which describes the number of distinct words in a document (or set of… (More)
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2016
2016
Verifying Heaps' law using Google Books Ngram data
This article is devoted to the verification of the empirical Heaps law in European languages using Google Books Ngram corpus data… (More)
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2016
2016
Herdan-Heaps Law Corresponds to Lotka's Law: A Dynamic Perspective from Simon's Model
Herdan-Heaps law and Lotka’s law are two important laws in linguistics and many other fields, which are often found to coexist in… (More)
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2014
2014
Information density, Heaps' Law, and perception of factiness in news
Seeking information online can be an exercise in time wasted wading through repetitive, verbose text with little actual content… (More)
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2014
2014
Scaling laws and fluctuations in the statistics of word frequencies
In this paper we combine statistical analysis of large text databases and simple stochastic models to explain the appearance of… (More)
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2012
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2012
Information-Theoretic Models of Natural Language
The relaxed Hilberg conjecture is a proposition about natural language which states that mutual information between two adjacent… (More)
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2008
2008
Discovery of Power-Laws in Chemical Space
Power-law distributions have been observed in a wide variety of areas. To our knowledge however, there has been no systematic… (More)
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2007
2007
Untangling Herdan's law and Heaps' law: Mathematical and informetric arguments
and this formula represents the formulation of Herdan’s law: The logarithm of vocabulary size divided by the logarithm of text… (More)
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2004
2004
Effect of Feature Smoothing Methods in Text Classification Tasks
The number of features to be considered in a text classification system is given by the size of the vocabulary and this is… (More)
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2003
2003
Combination of a hidden tag model and a traditional n-gram model: a case study in czech speech recognition
A speech recognition system targeting high inflective languages is described that combines the traditional trigram language model… (More)
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2001
2001
Zipf and Heaps Laws' Coefficients Depend on Language
We observed that the coefficients of two important empirical statistical laws of language – Zipf law and Heaps law – are… (More)
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