Zipf's Law

Zipf’s law states that the frequency of word tokens in a large corpus of natural language is inversely proportional to the rank. The law is investigated for two languages English …...

It is shown that for a large corpus, Zipf 's law for both words in English and characters in Chinese does not hold for all ranks. The frequency falls below …...

AbstractZipf’s law is a succinct yet powerful mathematical law in linguistics. However the mean-ingfulness and units of the law have remained controversial. The current study usesonline video comments call “danmu …...