Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.001
Abstract: The linguist George Kingsley Zipf made a now classic observation about the relationship between a word's length and its frequency; the more frequent a word is, the shorter it tends to be. He claimed that… read more here.
Keywords: least effort; language; law abbreviation; principle least ... See more keywords
A System-Independent Derivation of Preferential Attachment from the Principle of Least Effort
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DOI: 10.3390/e25020305
Abstract: Preferential attachment (PA) is a widely observed behavior in many living systems and has been used in modeling many networks. The aim of this work is to show that the mechanism of PA is a… read more here.
Keywords: preferential attachment; least effort; system independent; principle least ... See more keywords