Long-range fractal correlations in literary corpora
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Computation and Language
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
In this paper we analyse the fractal structure of long human-language records by mapping large samples of texts onto time series. The particular mapping set up in this work is inspired on linguistic basis in the sense that is retains {\em the word} as the fundamental unit of communication. The results confirm that beyond the short-range correlations resulting from syntactic rules acting at sentence level, long-range structures emerge in large written language samples that give rise to long-range correlations in the use of words.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0201139,
title = {Long-range fractal correlations in literary corpora},
author = {Marcelo A. Montemurro and Pedro A. Pury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0201139},
year = {2007}
}
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to appear in Fractals