Physicists' papers on natural language from a complex systems viewpoint
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1989 to 2019 | Last modified on
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E Bok'anyi, D Kondor, and G Vattay, Scaling in words on twitter, arXiv:1903.04329, 2019 [arXiv]
E DeGiuli, Random language model, Physical review letters 122, 128301, 2019 [doi]
E DeGiuli, Emergence of order in random languages, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2019 [doi]
E Estevez-Rams, A Mesa-Rodriguez, and D Estevez-Moya, Complexity-entropy analysis at different levels of organisation in written language, PloS one 14, e0214863, 2019 [doi]
A Koplenig, S Wolfer, and C M"uller-Spitzer, Studying lexical dynamics and language change via generalized entropies: the problem of sample size, Entropy 21, 464, 2019 [doi]
M Lippi, MA Montemurro, MD Esposti, and G Cristadoro, Natural language statistical features of {lstm-generated} texts, IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems, 2019 [doi][arXiv]
M Mussa Juane, LF Seoane, AP Mu~nuzuri, and J Mira, Urbanity and the dynamics of language shift in galicia, Nature communications 10, 1680, 2019 [doi]
JI Perotti and OV Billoni, Zipf's law in music emerges by a natural choice of zipfian units, arXiv:1902.06678, 2019 [arXiv]
2018
R Amato, L Lacasa, A Diaz-Guilera, and A Baronchelli, The dynamics of norm change in the cultural evolution of language, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 201721059, 2018 [doi]
AD Back, D Angus, and J Wiles, Determining the number of samples required to estimate entropy in natural sequences, arXiv:1805.08929, 1-6, 2018 [arXiv]
T Bhattacharya, N Retzlaff, DE Blasi, W Croft, M Cysouw, D Hruschka, I Maddieson, L M"uller, E Smith, PF Stadler, G Starostin, and H Youn, Studying language evolution in the age of big data, Journal of Language Evolution 3, 94-129, 2018 [doi]
VV Bochkarev, AV Shevlyakova, and EY Lerner, Modelling of growth of syntactic relations network in english and russian, Journal of physics. Conference series 1141, 012008, 2018 [doi]
J Burridge, B Vaux, M Gnacik, and Y Grudeva, Statistical physics of language maps in the {usa, arXiv:1811.08788, 2018 [arXiv]
LR Chai and DS Bassett, Evolution of semantic networks in biomedical texts, arXiv:1810.10534, 2018 [arXiv]
G Cocho, RF Rodriguez, S S'anchez, J Flores, C Pineda, and C Gershenson, Rank-frequency distribution of natural languages: a difference of probabilities approach, arXiv:1811.09451, 2018 [arXiv]
HF de Arruda, VQ Marinho, LDF Costa, and DR Amancio, Paragraph-based complex networks: application to document classification and authenticity verification, arXiv:1806.08467, 2018 [arXiv]
W Deng and AE Allahverdyan, Relating zipf's law to textual information, arXiv:1809.08399, 2018 [arXiv]
L Dias, M Gerlach, J Scharloth, and EG Altmann, Using text analysis to quantify the similarity and evolution of scientific disciplines, Royal Society open science 5, 171545, 2018 [doi][arXiv]
R Ferrer-i-Cancho and MS Vitevitch, The origins of zipf's meaning-frequency law, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 122, 558, 2018 [doi][arXiv]
R Ferrer-i-Cancho, Optimization models of natural communication, Journal of quantitative linguistics 25, 207-237, 2018 [doi]
WP Goh, K Luke, and SA Cheong, Functional shortcuts in language co-occurrence networks, PloS one 13, e0203025, 2018 [doi]
B Gonc calves, L Loureiro-Porto, JJ Ramasco, and D S'anchez, Mapping the americanization of english in space and time, PloS one 13, e0197741, 2018 [doi][arXiv]
TJ Gray, AJ Reagan, PS Dodds, and CM Danforth, English verb regularization in books and tweets, PloS one 13, e0209651, 2018 [doi][arXiv]
R Hanel and S Thurner, The role of grammar in transition-probabilities of subsequent words in english text, arXiv:1812.10991, 2018 [arXiv]
J Holehouse and RA Blythe, Cross-situational learning of large lexicons with finite memory, arXiv:1809.11047, 2018 [arXiv]
R Huang, Q Zou, K Xu, M Cai, W Zhang, W Deng, and B Liu, Key nodes mining of root network and phoneme network of modern chinese characters, Journal of physics. Conference series 1113, 012019, 2018 [doi]
A Karjus, RA Blythe, S Kirby, and K Smith, Topical advection as a baseline model for corpus-based lexical dynamics, Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, 186-188, 2018 [doi]
A Karjus, RA Blythe, S Kirby, and K Smith, Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language, arXiv:1806.00699, 1-29, 2018 [arXiv]
A Karjus, RA Blythe, S Kirby, and K Smith, Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora, arXiv:1811.01275, 2018 [arXiv]
T Kobayashi and K Tanaka-Ishii, Taylor's law for human linguistic sequences, arXiv:1804.07893, 2018 [arXiv]
D Lipowska and A Lipowski, Emergence of linguistic conventions in multi-agent reinforcement learning, PloS one 13, e0208095, 2018 [doi]
Y Lou, G Chen, and J Hu, Communicating with sentences: a multi-word naming game model, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 490, 857-868, 2018 [doi]
A Mazzolini, J Grilli, E De Lazzari, M Osella, MC Lagomarsino, and M Gherardi, Zipf and heaps laws from dependency structures in component systems, Physical Review E 98, 012315, 2018 [doi][arXiv]
A Mazzolini, A Colliva, M Caselle, and M Osella, Heaps' law, statistics of shared components and temporal patterns from a sample-space-reducing process, arXiv:1806.09419, 2018 [arXiv]
A Mazzolini, M Gherardi, M Caselle, M Cosentino Lagomarsino, and M Osella, Statistics of shared components in complex component systems, Physical Review X 8, 021023, 2018 [doi][arXiv]
JA Morales, E Colman, S S'anchez, F S'anchez-Puig, C Pineda, G I~niguez, G Cocho, J Flores, and C Gershenson, Rank dynamics of word usage at multiple scales, arXiv:1802.07258, 2018 [doi][arXiv]
M Ortega-Rodriguez, H Solis-S'anchez, and R Gamboa-Alfaro, Deciding the status of controversial phonemes using frequency distributions; an application to semiconsonants in spanish, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 503, 1020-1029, 2018 [doi]
S Pompei, V Loreto, and F Tria, Copystree, Language Dynamics and Change 8, 55-77, 2018 [doi]
T Price and S Hossenfelder, Measuring scientific broadness, arXiv:1805.04647, 1-17, 2018 [arXiv]
LF Seoane and R Sol'e, The morphospace of language networks, arXiv:1803.01934 1, 1-18, 2018 [arXiv]
E Shulzinger, I Legchenkova, and E Bormashenko, Co-occurrence of the benford-like and zipf laws arising from the texts representing human and artificial languages, arXiv:1803.03667, 2018 [arXiv]
T Stanisz, J Kwapie'n, and S Dro zd z, Linguistic data mining with complex networks: a stylometric-oriented approach, arXiv:1808.05439, 2018 [arXiv]
S Takahashi and K Tanaka-Ishii, Assessing language models with scaling properties, arXiv:1804.08881, 1-14, 2018 [arXiv]
S Takahashi and K Tanaka-Ishii, Cross entropy of neural language models at {infinity---a} new bound of the entropy rate, Entropy 20, 839, 2018 [doi]
F Tria, V Loreto, and V Servedio, Zipf's, heaps' and taylor's laws are determined by the expansion into the adjacent possible, Entropy 20, 752, 2018 [doi]
DS Vieira, S Picoli, and RS Mendes, Robustness of sentence length measures in written texts, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018 [doi]
H Watanabe, Empirical observations of ultraslow diffusion driven by the fractional dynamics in languages, Physical Review E 98, 012308, 2018 [doi]
M Wiegand, S Nadarajah, and Y Si, Word frequencies: a comparison of pareto type distributions, Physics letters. A, 2018 [doi]
M Wo'zniak, A Wolos, U Modrzyk, RL G'orski, J Winkowski, M Bajczyk, S Szymku'c, BA Grzybowski, and M Eder, Linguistic measures of chemical diversity and the ``keywords'' of molecular collections, Scientific reports 8, 7598, 2018 [doi]
X Yan and P Minnhagen, The dependence of frequency distributions on multiple meanings of words, codes and signs, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 490, 554-564, 2018 [doi]
X Yan, S Yang, BJ Kim, and P Minnhagen, Benford's law and first letter of words, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 512, 305-315, 2018 [doi]
S Yu, C Xu, and H Liu, Zipf's law in 50 languages: its structural pattern, linguistic interpretation, and cognitive motivation, arXiv:1807.01855, 1-18, 2018 [arXiv]
2017
C Akimushkin, DR Amancio, and ON Oliveira, Text authorship identified using the dynamics of word {co-occurrence} networks, PloS one 12, e0170527, 2017 [doi]
Y Al Rozz, H Hamoodat, and R Menezes, Characterization of written languages using structural features from common corpora, 161-173, 2017 [doi]
EG Altmann, L Dias, and M Gerlach, Generalized entropies and the similarity of texts, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2017, 014002, 2017 [doi][arXiv]
C Bentz, D Alikaniotis, M Cysouw, and R Ferrer-i-Cancho, The entropy of {words---learnability} and expressivity across more than 1000 languages, Entropy 19, 275, 2017 [doi]
J Burridge, Spatial evolution of human dialects, Physical Review X 7, 031008, 2017 [doi][arXiv]
V Chand, D Kapper, S Mondal, S Sur, and R Parshad, Indian english evolution and focusing visible through power laws, Languages 2, 26, 2017 [doi]
' Corral and F Font-Clos, Dependence of exponents on text length versus finite-size scaling for word-frequency distributions, Physical review. E 96, 022318, 2017 [doi]
X Cui, CN Yoon, H Youn, SH Lee, JS Jung, and SK Han, Dynamic burstiness of word-occurrence and network modularity in textbook systems, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017 [doi]
W Deng and MP Pato, Approaching word length distribution via level spectra, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 481, 167-175, 2017 [doi]
G Donoso and D Sanchez, Dialectometric analysis of language variation in twitter, arXiv:1702.06777, 2017 [arXiv]
G Febres and K Jaff'e, Quantifying structure differences in literature using symbolic diversity and entropy criteria, Journal of quantitative linguistics 24, 16-53, 2017 [doi]
Q Feltgen, B Fagard, and J Nadal, Modeling language change: the pitfall of grammaticalization, Language in Complexity, 49-72, 2017 [doi]
Q Feltgen, B Fagard, and J Nadal, Frequency patterns of semantic change: corpus-based evidence of a near-critical dynamics in language change, Royal Society Open Science 4, 170830, 2017 [doi][arXiv]
AJ Gallego and R Orus, Language design as information renormalization, arXiv:1708.01525, 2017 [arXiv]
K Hayata, Frustration in the pattern formation of polysyllabic words, Frontiers in Physics 4, 2017 [doi]
C Hern'andez-G'omez, R Basurto-Flores, B Obreg'on-Quintana, and L Guzm'an-Vargas, Evaluating the irregularity of natural languages, Entropy 19, 521, 2017 [doi]
AJ Holanda, M Matias, SMSP Ferreira, GML Benevides, and O Kinouchi, Character networks and book genre classification, arXiv:1704.08197, 2017 [arXiv]
D Lipowska and A Lipowski, Language competition in a population of migrating agents, Physical Review E 95, 052308, 2017 [doi]
A Martini, A Cardillo, and PDL Rios, Entropic selection of concepts in networks of similarity between documents, arXiv:1705.06510, 2017 [arXiv]
A Mehri and M Jamaati, Variation of zipf's exponent in one hundred live languages: a study of the holy bible translations, Physics letters. A, 2017 [doi]
Y Neuman, Y Cohen, N Israeli, and B Tamir, A proposed methodology for studying the historical trajectory of words' meaning through tsallis entropy, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017 [doi]
K Prochazka and G Vogl, Quantifying the driving factors for language shift in a bilingual region, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201617252, 2017 [doi]
J Quezada-Gonz'alez, D Aguilar-Vel'azquez, T Contreras-Uribe, B Obreg'on-Quintana, and L Guzm'an-Vargas, A comparative study of power law scaling in large word-length sequences, Journal of physics. Conference series 792, 012076, 2017 [doi]
T Raducha and T Gubiec, Predicting language diversity with complex network, arXiv:1704.08359, 1-10, 2017 [arXiv]
AJ Reagan, CM Danforth, B Tivnan, JR Williams, and PS Dodds, Sentiment analysis methods for understanding large-scale texts: a case for using continuum-scored words and word shift graphs, EPJ Data Science 6, 28, 2017 [doi]
LF Seoane and J Mira, Modeling the life and death of competing languages from a physical and mathematical perspective, Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe: Current trends and development. 93, 1-22, 2017 [arXiv]
E Shulzinger and E Bormashenko, On the universal quantitative pattern of the distribution of initial characters in general dictionaries: the exponential distribution is valid for various languages, Journal of quantitative linguistics 6174, 1-16, 2017 [doi]
M Stella, NM Beckage, M Brede, and M De Domenico, Multiplex model of mental lexicon reveals explosive learning in humans, arXiv:1705.09731, 2017 [arXiv]
S Takahashi and K Tanaka-Ishii, Do neural nets learn statistical laws behind natural language?, PloS one 12, e0189326, 2017 [doi]
J Vera and F Urbina, Agent-based model for the origins of scaling in human language, arXiv:1705.05762, 2017 [arXiv]
JR Williams and GC Santia, Is space a word, too?, arXiv:1710.07729, 2017 [arXiv]
2016
EG Altmann and M Gerlach, Statistical laws in linguistics, Creativity and Universality in Language, 7-26, 2016
C Bian, R Lin, X Zhang, QDY Ma, and PC Ivanov, Scaling laws and model of words organization in spoken and written language, EPL 113, 18002, 2016 [doi]
RA Blythe, ADM Smith, and K Smith, Word learning under infinite uncertainty, Cognition 151, 18-27, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
VV Bochkarev, EY Lerner, and AV Shevlyakova, Verifying heaps' law using google books ngram data, arXiv:1612.09213, 2016 [arXiv]
P Carpena, PA Bernaola-Galv'an, C Carretero-Campos, and AV Coronado, Probability distribution of intersymbol distances in random symbolic sequences: applications to improving detection of keywords in texts and of amino acid clustering in proteins, Physical Review E 94, 052302, 2016 [doi]
A Carro, R Toral, and MS Miguel, Coupled dynamics of node and link states in complex networks: a model for language competition, New journal of physics 18, 113056, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
M Chatzigeorgiou, V Constantoudis, F Diakonos, K Karamanos, C Papadimitriou, M Kalimeri, and H Papageorgiou, Multifractal correlations in natural language written texts: effects of language family and long word statistics, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016 [doi]
V Constantoudis, M Kalimeri, F Diakonos, K Karamanos, C Papadimitriou, M Chatzigeorgiou, and H Papageorgiou, Long-range correlations and burstiness in written texts: universal and language-specific aspects, International Journal of Modern Physics B 30, 1541005, 2016 [doi]
HF de Arruda, FN Silva, VQ Marinho, DR Amancio, and LDF Costa, Mesoscopic representation of texts as complex networks, arXiv:1606.09636, 2016 [arXiv]
S Dro zd z, P O'swiȩcimka, A Kulig, J Kwapie'n, K Bazarnik, I Grabska-Gradzi'nska, J Rybicki, and M Stanuszek, Quantifying origin and character of long-range correlations in narrative texts, Information sciences 331, 32-44, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
R Ferrer-I-Cancho and C G'omez-Rodriguez, Crossings as a side effect of dependency lengths, Complexity 21, 320-328, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
R Ferrer-i-Cancho, Compression and the origins of zipf's law for word frequencies, arXiv:1605.01326, 2016 [arXiv]
J Fort and J P'erez-Losada, Can a linguistic serial founder effect originating in africa explain the worldwide phonemic cline?, Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society 13, 20160185, 2016 [doi]
M Gerlach, F Font-Clos, and EG Altmann, Similarity of symbol frequency distributions with heavy tails, Physical Review X 6, 021009, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
Y Holovatch and V Palchykov, Complex networks of words in fables, arXiv:1602.04853, 1-16, 2016 [arXiv]
A Kulig, J Kwapien, T Stanisz, and S Drozdz, In narrative texts punctuation marks obey the same statistics as words, Information sciences 375, 98-113, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
JL Leonard, E Heinsalu, M Patriarca, K Sharma, and A Chakraborti, Patterns of linguistic diffusion in space and time: the case of mazatec, arXiv:1612.02994, 2016 [arXiv]
S Li, R Lin, C Bian, QDY Ma, and PC Ivanov, Model of the dynamic construction process of texts and scaling laws of words organization in language systems, PloS one 11, e0168971, 2016 [doi]
HW Lin and M Tegmark, Critical behavior from deep dynamics: a hidden dimension in natural language, arXiv:1606.06737 02139, 2016 [arXiv]
JC Loach and J Wang, Optimizing the learning order of chinese characters using a novel topological sort algorithm, arXiv:1602.08742, 2016 [arXiv]
V Loreto, P Gravino, VDP Servedio, and F Tria, On the emergence of syntactic structures: quantifying and modelling duality of patterning, arXiv:1602.03661, 1-11, 2016 [arXiv]
A Mehri and SM Lashkari, Power-law regularities in human language, The European physical journal. B 89, 241, 2016 [doi]
SS Melnik, Entropy and long-range memory in random symbolic additive markov chains, Physical Review E 93, 062144, 2016 [doi]
J Michaud, Continuous time limits of the utterance selection model, arXiv:1606.08433, 2016 [arXiv]
MA Montemurro and DH Zanette, Coherent oscillations in word-use data from 1700 to 2008, Palgrave Communications 2, 16084, 2016 [doi]
I Moreno-S'anchez, F Font-Clos, and ' Corral, Large-scale} analysis of zipf's law in english texts, PloS one 11, e0147073, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
RD Parshad, S Bhowmick, V Chand, N Kumari, and N Sinha, What is india speaking? exploring the ``hinglish'' invasion, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 449, 375-389, 2016 [doi]
SD Prado, SR Dahmen, ALC Bazzan, P Mac Carron, and R Kenna, Temporal network analysis of literary texts, arXiv:1602.07275, 2016 [arXiv]
AJ Reagan, L Mitchell, D Kiley, CM Danforth, and PS Dodds, The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes, EPJ Data Science 5, 31, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
AH Shirazi, A Badie Modiri, S Heydari, JL Rohn, GR Jafari, and AR Mani, Evolution of communities in the medical sciences: evidence from the medical words network, PloS one 11, e0167546, 2016 [doi]
J Sienkiewicz and EG Altmann, Impact of lexical and sentiment factors on the popularity of scientific papers, arXiv:1605.07465, 1-9, 2016 [arXiv]
R Sol'e, Synthetic transitions: towards a new synthesis, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 371, 20150438, 2016 [doi]
K Stadler, RA Blythe, K Smith, and S Kirby, Momentum in language change: a model of {self-actuating} s-shaped curves, Language Dynamics and Change 6, 171-198, 2016 [doi]
M Stella, NM Beckage, and M Brede, Multiplex lexical networks reveal patterns in early word acquisition in children, arXiv:1609.03207, 1-17, 2016 [arXiv]
M Stella and M Brede, Mental lexicon growth modelling reveals the multiplexity of the english language, arXiv:1604.01243, 267-279, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
R Takahira, K Tanaka-Ishii, and L Dk ebowski, Entropy rate estimates for natural {language---a} new extrapolation of compressed {large-scale} corpora, Entropy 18, 364, 2016 [doi]
K Tanaka-Ishii and A Bunde, Long-range} memory in literary texts: on the universal clustering of the rare words, PloS one 11, e0164658, 2016 [doi]
IG Torre, B Luque, L Lacasa, J Luque, and A Hernandez-Fernandez, Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice, arXiv:1610.02736, 1-9, 2016 [arXiv]
H Watanabe, Y Sano, H Takayasu, and M Takayasu, Statistical properties of fluctuations of time series representing the appearance of words in nationwide blog data and their applications: an example of observations and the modelling of fluctuation scalings of nonstationary time series, Physical Review E 94, 1-27, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
JR Williams, JP Bagrow, AJ Reagan, SE Alajajian, CM Danforth, and PS Dodds, Selection models of language production support informed text partitioning: an intuitive and practical, bag-of-phrases framework for text analysis, arXiv:1601.07969, 1-4, 2016 [arXiv]
RR Xie, WB Deng, DJ Wang, and LP Csernai, Quantitative entropy study of language complexity, arXiv:1611.04841, 2016 [arXiv]
H Youn, L Sutton, E Smith, C Moore, JF Wilkins, I Maddieson, W Croft, and T Bhattacharya, On the universal structure of human lexical semantics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 1766-1771, 2016 [doi][arXiv]
2015
M Ausloos, O Nedic, A Fronczak, and P Fronczak, Quantifying the quality of peer reviewers through zipf's law, arXiv:1508.05624, 28, 2015 [arXiv]
RA Blythe, Symmetry and universality in language change, arXiv:1508.05297, 1-15, 2015 [arXiv]
RA Blythe, Colloquium: hierarchy of scales in language dynamics, The European physical journal. B 88, 295, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
G Cocho, J Flores, C Gershenson, C Pineda, and S S'anchez, Rank diversity of languages: generic behavior in computational linguistics, PloS one 10, e0121898, 2015 [doi]
F Colaiori, C Castellano, CF Cuskley, V Loreto, M Pugliese, and F Tria, General three-state model with biased population replacement: analytical solution and application to language dynamics, Physical Review E 91, 012808, 2015 [doi]
B Corominas-Murtra, R Hanel, and S Thurner, Understanding scaling through history-dependent processes with collapsing sample space, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, 5348-5353, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
C Cuskley, F Colaiori, C Castellano, V Loreto, M Pugliese, and F Tria, The adoption of linguistic rules in native and non-native speakers: evidence from a wug task, Journal of memory and language 84, 205-223, 2015 [doi]
W Deng and AE Allahverdyan, Stochastic model for phonemes uncovers an author-dependency of their usage, arXiv:1510.01315, 1-16, 2015 [arXiv]
PS Dodds, EM Clark, S Desu, MR Frank, AJ Reagan, JR Williams, L Mitchell, KD Harris, IM Kloumann, JP Bagrow, K Megerdoomian, MT McMahon, BF Tivnan, and CM Danforth, Reply to garcia et al.: common mistakes in measuring frequency-dependent word characteristics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 201505647, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
PS Dodds, EM Clark, S Desu, MR Frank, AJ Reagan, JR Williams, L Mitchell, KD Harris, IM Kloumann, JP Bagrow, K Megerdoomian, MT McMahon, BF Tivnan, and CM Danforth, Human language reveals a universal positivity bias, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1-6, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
Q Feltgen, B Fagard, and J Nadal, Repr{\'e}sentation du langage et mod{\`e}les d'{\'e}volution linguistique : la grammaticalisation comme perspective, Traitement Automatique des Langues, 2015
R Ferrer-i-Cancho, C Bentz, and C Seguin, Compression and the origins of zipf's law of abbreviation, arXiv:1504.04884, 2015 [arXiv]
F Font-Clos and ' Corral, Log-log} convexity of {type-token} growth in zipf's systems, Physical review letters 114, 238701, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
J Fortuny and B Corominas-Murtra, Introduction. on the locus of ambiguity and the design of language, The Linguistic Review 32, 1-4, 2015 [doi]
D Garcia, A Garas, and F Schweitzer, The language-dependent relationship between word happiness and frequency, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201502909, 2015 [doi]
L Guzm'an-Vargas, B Obreg'on-Quintana, D Aguilar-Vel'azquez, R Hern'andez-P'erez, and L Liebovitch, Word-length} correlations and memory in large texts: a visibility network analysis, Entropy 17, 7798-7810, 2015 [doi]
DG Hern'andez, DH Zanette, and I Samengo, Information-theoretical analysis of the statistical dependencies among three variables: applications to written language, Physical Review E 92, 022813, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
M Kalimeri, V Constantoudis, C Papadimitriou, K Karamanos, FK Diakonos, and H Papageorgiou, Word-length entropies and correlations of natural language written texts, Journal of quantitative linguistics 22, 101-118, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
V Kargin, On variation of word frequencies in russian literary texts, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1-7, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
A Kulig, S Dro zd z, J Kwapie'n, and P O'swiȩcimka, Modeling the average shortest-path length in growth of word-adjacency networks, Physical Review E 91, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
A Lancichinetti, MI Sirer, JX Wang, D Acuna, K K"ording, and LAN Amaral, High-reproducibility} and {high-accuracy} method for automated topic classification, Physical Review X 5, 011007, 2015 [doi]
R Lin, C Bian, and DYQ Ma, Scaling laws in human speech, decreasing emergence of new words and a generalized model, 1-14, 2015
J Luque, B Luque, and L Lacasa, Speech earthquakes: scaling and universality in human voice, Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society 12, 20141344, 2015 [doi]
A Mariano, G Parisi, and S Pascazio, Language discrimination and clustering via a neural network approach, arXiv:1507.04116, 1-10, 2015 [arXiv]
MA Montemurro and DH Zanette, Complexity and universality in the long-range order of words, arXiv:1503.01129v1, 2015 [arXiv]
EA Pechenick, CM Danforth, and PS Dodds, Is language evolution grinding to a halt?: exploring the life and death of words in english fiction, arXiv:1503.03512v1, 1-12, 2015 [arXiv]
EA Pechenick, CM Danforth, and PS Dodds, Characterizing the google books corpus: strong limits to inferences of {socio-cultural} and linguistic evolution, PloS one 10, e0137041, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
AJ Reagan, B Tivnan, JR Williams, CM Danforth, and PS Dodds, Benchmarking sentiment analysis methods for large-scale texts: a case for using continuum-scored words and word shift graphs, arXiv:1512.00531, 2015 [arXiv]
J Ryland Williams, PR Lessard, S Desu, EM Clark, JP Bagrow, CM Danforth, and P Sheridan Dodds, Zipf's law holds for phrases, not words, Scientific reports 5, 12209, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
FN Silva, DR Amancio, M Bardosova, ON Oliveira, and LDF Costa, Using network science and text analytics to produce surveys in a scientific topic, arXiv:1506.05690, 1-10, 2015 [arXiv]
K Siva, J Tao, and M Marcolli, Spin glass models of syntax and language evolution, arXiv:1508.00504, 19, 2015 [arXiv]
S Thurner, R Hanel, and B Corominas-Murtra, Understanding zipf's law of word frequencies through sample-space collapse in sentence formation, Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society 12, 20150330, 2015 [doi]
F Tria, VDPP Servedio, SS Mufwene, and V Loreto, Modeling the emergence of contact languages, PloS one 10, e0120771, 2015 [doi]
JR Williams, JP Bagrow, CM Danforth, and PS Dodds, Text mixing shapes the anatomy of rank-frequency distributions, Physical Review E 91, 5, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
JR Williams, EM Clark, JP Bagrow, CM Danforth, and PS Dodds, Identifying missing dictionary entries with frequency-conserving context models, Physical Review E 92, 042808, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
J Yun, P Kim, and H Jeong, Anatomy of scientific evolution, PloS one 10, e0117388, 2015 [doi][arXiv]
2014
V Bochkarev, V Solovyev, and S Wichmann, Universals versus historical contingencies in lexical evolution, Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society 11, 20140841-20140841, 2014 [doi]
VV Bochkarev, EY Lerner, and AV Shevlyakova, Deviations in the zipf and heaps laws in natural languages, Journal of physics. Conference series 490, 012009, 2014 [doi]
DT Citron and P Ginsparg, Patterns of text reuse in a scientific corpus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 201415135, 2014
R Colucci, J Mira, JJ Nieto, and MV Otero-Espinar, Coexistence in exotic scenarios of a modified {abrams-strogatz} model, Complexity, 2014 [doi]
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2013
CM Alis and MT Lim, Spatio-temporal variation of conversational utterances on twitter, PloS one 8, e77793, 2013 [doi][arXiv]
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2012
CM Alis and MT Lim, Adaptation of fictional and online conversations to communication media, The European physical journal. B 85, 397, 2012 [doi]
EG Altmann, G Cristadoro, and MD Esposti, On the origin of long-range correlations in texts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 11582-11587, 2012 [doi]
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M Ausloos, Generalized hurst exponent and multifractal function of original and translated texts mapped into frequency and length time series, Physical Review E 86, 031108, 2012 [doi][arXiv]
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2011
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2010
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