Search Results for author: Paul R. Lessard

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Zipf's law holds for phrases, not words

no code implementations19 Jun 2014 Jake Ryland Williams, Paul R. Lessard, Suma Desu, Eric Clark, James P. Bagrow, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

With Zipf's law being originally and most famously observed for word frequency, it is surprisingly limited in its applicability to human language, holding over no more than three to four orders of magnitude before hitting a clear break in scaling.

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