Word frequency studies
By: by Ioan-Iovitz Popescu in co-operation with Gabriel Altmann ... [et al.].
Contributors: Altmann, Gabriel.
Series: Quantitative linguistics -- 64
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9783110218527
Subjects: Language and languages -- Word frequency
Description: The present book finds and collects absolutely new aspects of word frequency. First, eminent characteristics (such as the h-point, first used in scientometrics, the k-, m-, and n-points) are introduced - it can be shown that the geometry of word frequency is fundamentally based on them. Furthermore, various indicators of text properties are proposed for the first time, such as thematic concentration, autosemantic text compactness, autosemantic density, etc. In detail, the autosemantic structure of a given text is evaluated by means of a graph representation and its properties (according to a p.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.