Search Results for author: Junying Liang

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The distribution of information content in English sentences

no code implementations24 Sep 2016 Shuiyuan Yu, Jin Cong, Junying Liang, Haitao Liu

Sentence is a basic linguistic unit, however, little is known about how information content is distributed across different positions of a sentence.

Position Sentence

Existence of Hierarchies and Human's Pursuit of Top Hierarchy Lead to Power Law

no code implementations24 Sep 2016 Shuiyuan Yu, Junying Liang, Haitao Liu

The power law is ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena, and is considered as a universal relationship between the frequency and its rank for diverse social systems.

Dependency length minimization: Puzzles and Promises

no code implementations15 Sep 2015 Haitao Liu, Chunshan Xu, Junying Liang

In the recent issue of PNAS, Futrell et al. claims that their study of 37 languages gives the first large scale cross-language evidence for Dependency Length Minimization, which is an overstatement that ignores similar previous researches.

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