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Zipf's law
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Zipf's laws
, Zipf distribution
, Zipf
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Zipf's law /ˈzɪf/ is an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics that refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the…
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2018
2018
Aspect coding asymmetries of verbs: The case of Russian
G. Celano
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M.P.R. Richter
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R. Voll
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Gerhard Heyer
Conference on Natural Language Processing
2018
Corpus ID: 201921912
This paper presents preliminary corpusbased evidence from Russian for an “aspectual coding asymmetry”. The main research question…
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2012
Review
2012
Comparing Shortest Paths Lengths of Free and Proprietary Data for Effective Pedestrian Routing in Street Networks
Dennis Zielstra
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H. Hochmair
2012
Corpus ID: 31572081
Ubiquitous mobile devices, such as smartphones, led to an increased popularity of pedestrian related routing applications over…
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2012
2012
Zipf's Law and Vocabulary
C. Sorell
2012
Corpus ID: 53909267
In the 1930s, George Kingsley Zipf observed that a few very frequent words make up a very large portion of any text or collection…
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2011
2011
A diffusion reaction theory of morphogenesis in plants ( with CW
2011
Corpus ID: 2629680
The lookaside buffer and multi-processors, while confirmed in theory, have not until recently been considered structur ed. In…
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2010
2010
A Top-k Query Method by Estimating Score Distribution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Yuya Sasaki
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Ryo Hagihara
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T. Hara
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M. Shinohara
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S. Nishio
IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced…
2010
Corpus ID: 5746871
In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), to acquire only necessary data items, it is effective that each mobile node retrieves data…
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2007
2007
Zipf ’ s Law Revisited
Omer Tripp
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D. Feitelson
2007
Corpus ID: 15431237
Zipf’s law states that the frequency of occurence of some event as a function of its rank is a power-law function. Using…
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2005
2005
Zipf's law in Multifragmentation
X. Campi
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H. Krivine
2005
Corpus ID: 37150180
We discuss the meaning of Zipf's law in nuclear multifragmentation. We remark that Zipf's law is a consequence of a power-law…
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2001
2001
Zipf's law in human heartbeat dynamics
J. Kalda
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M. Sakki
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M. Vainu
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M. Laan
2001
Corpus ID: 3023878
It is shown that the distribution of low variability periods in the activity of human heart rate typically follows a multi…
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2000
2000
Observation of changing information sources
B. Brewington
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G. Cybenko
2000
Corpus ID: 59724039
1999
1999
A study to determine the efficacy of chiropractic spinal adjustments as a treatment protocol in the management of infantile colic
C. Mercer
1999
Corpus ID: 80000479
Infantile colic is a common condition in paediatric practice (Larson & Ayllon 1990) with very little consensus in medical circles…
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