Statistical mechanical approach to human language

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 366, Issue , 2006, Pages 495-502

  Kosmidis, Kosmas ^a   Kalampokis, Alkiviadis ^a   Argyrakis, Panos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Language; Language evolution; Statistical physics; Zipf law

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HAMILTONIANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; ZIPF LAW;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 33646182606     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.10.039     Document Type: Article

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