Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words
Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words
Background: Zipf's discovery that word frequency distributions obey a power law established parallels between biological and physical processes, and language, laying the groundwork for a complex systems perspective on human communication. More recent research has also identified scaling regularities in the dynamics underlying the successive occurrences of events, suggesting the …