On the origin of long-range correlations in texts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 11582-11587

  Altmann, Eduardo G ^a   Cristadoro, Giampaolo ^b   Esposti, Mirko Degli ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Burstiness; Complex systems; Language dynamics; Long correlations; Statistical physics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863929681     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117723109     Document Type: Article

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