no code implementations • 17 Mar 2023 • Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell, Mengxue Wang, Chris Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potential for being exceptionless or with a number of exceptions that is vanishingly small compared to the number of languages on Earth.
2 code implementations • 22 Aug 2022 • Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell, Mengxue Wang, Christian Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Zipf's law of abbreviation, namely the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, has been viewed as a manifestation of compression, i. e. the minimization of the length of forms -- a universal principle of natural communication.
