The meta book and size-dependent properties of written language

Details The meta book and size-dependent properties of written language The meta book and size-dependent properties of written language

2009-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/0909.4385v1

New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 123015

Physics

Physics and Society

7 pages, 6 figures, 1 table

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/11/12/123015

Evidence is given for a systematic text-length dependence of the power-law index gamma of a single book. The estimated gamma values are consistent with a monotonic decrease from 2 to 1 with increasing length of a text. A direct connection to an extended Heap's law is explored. The infinite book limit is, as a consequence, proposed to be given by gamma = 1 instead of the value gamma=2 expected if the Zipf's law was ubiquitously applicable. In addition we explore the idea that the systematic text-length dependence can be described by a meta book concept, which is an abstract representation reflecting the word-frequency structure of a text. According to this concept the word-frequency distribution of a text, with a certain length written by a single author, has the same characteristics as a text of the same length pulled out from an imaginary complete infinite corpus written by the same author.

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