Applications and Explanations of Zipf's Law

Proceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 151-160

  Powers, David M W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION; ZIPF LAW;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85052586075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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