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Zipf's law

Known as: Zipf's laws, Zipf distribution, Zipf 
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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Animal consciousnessBibliogramBradford's lawBrown Corpus

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BibliometricsComputational linguisticsCorpus linguistics

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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Zipf's law, power laws and maximum entropy
Zipf's law, and power laws in general, have attracted and continue to attract considerable attention in a wide variety of… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Impact of traffic mix on caching performance in a content-centric network
For a realistic traffic mix, we evaluate the hit rates attained in a two-layer cache hierarchy designed to reduce Internet… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
A Stochastic Arabic Diacritizer Based on a Hybrid of Factorized and Unfactorized Textual Features
This paper introduces a large-scale dual-mode stochastic system to automatically diacritize raw Arabic text. The first of these… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Bibliometria: evolução histórica e questões atuais
Promove-se uma analise do campo de conhecimento intitulado bibliometria. Inicialmente, sao vistas as tres leis fundadoras do… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
The size distribution of Chinese cities
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Zipf's Law
As the most fundamental empirical law, Zipf’s law has been studied from many aspects. But its meaning is still an open problem… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Zipf's Law everywhere
At the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Kingsley Zipf, one striking fact about the statistical regularity that bears his… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Zipf plots and the size distribution of firms
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Empirical and Theoretical Bases of Zipf's Law
1Let us start by considering a basic form of Zipf's law. Suppose one has a natural-language corpus, e.g., a book written in… 
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Empirical hyperbolic distributions (Bradford-Zipf-Mandelbrot) for bibliometric description and prediction
Since 1960, and especially during the past three years, many papers have appeared about particular manifestations and… 
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