A stochastic process for word frequency distributions

  • Authors:
  • Harald Baayen

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen

  • Venue:
  • ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

A stochastic model based on insights of Mandelbrot (1953) and Simon (1955) is discussed against the background of new criteria of adequacy that have become available recently as a result of studies of the similarity relations between words as found in large computerized text corpora.