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Title: | Emergence of Zipf's law in the Evolution of Communication |
Author: | Corominas Murtra, Bernat Fortuny Andreu, Jordi Solé, Ricard V. |
Keywords: | Comunicació Models matemàtics Communication Mathematical models |
Issue Date: | 28-Mar-2011 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Abstract: | Zipf's law seems to be ubiquitous in human languages and appears to be a universal property of complex communicating systems. Following the early proposal made by Zipf concerning the presence of a tension between the efforts of speaker and hearer in a communication system, we introduce evolution by means of a variational approach to the problem based on Kullback's Minimum Discrimination of Information Principle. Therefore, using a formalism fully embedded in the framework of information theory, we demonstrate that Zipf's law is the only expected outcome of an evolving communicative system under a rigorous definition of the communicative tension described by Zipf. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.036115 |
It is part of: | Physical Review E, 2011, vol. 83, num. 3 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/162797 |
ISSN: | 1539-3755 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General) |
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