A language as a self-organized critical system
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A language as a self-organized critical system
zbMATH Open document ID: 1380.68371
DOI: 10.1155/2017/9212538
author: V. A. Gromov
author: Anastasia M. Migrina
published in: Complexity
publication date: 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: A natural language (represented by texts generated by native speakers) is considered as a complex system, and the type thereof to which natural languages belong is ascertained. Namely, the authors hypothesize that a language is a self-organized critical system and that the texts of a language are ``avalanches'' flowing down its word cooccurrence graph. The respective statistical characteristics for distributions of the number of words in the texts of English and Russian languages are calculated; the samples were constructed on the basis of corpora of literary texts and of a set of social media messages (as a substitution to the oral speech). The analysis found that the number of words in the texts obeys power-law distribution.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68T50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62P99
zbMATH DE Number: 6833365
zbMATH Keywords: natural language
zbMATH Keywords: self-organized critical system
zbMATH Keywords: word cooccurrence graph
zbMATH Keywords: statistical characteristics
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MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9212538
OpenAlex ID: W2768672809
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6833365