no code implementations • 24 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.
no code implementations • 24 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.
no code implementations • 15 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.