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We investigate the nature of written human language within the framework of complex network theory. In particular, we analyse the topology of Orwell's \textit{1984} focusing on the local properties of the network, such as the properties of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 A. P. Masucci , G. J. Rodgers

We propose a new integral based on Taylor measures, study its properties extensively, and we illustrate that it includes many concepts from mathematics as special cases. In particular, the new integral emerges as a generalization of the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Athanasios Christou Micheas

Physics seeks to uncover the laws of Nature and express them through mathematical equations. Despite the vast diversity of natural phenomena, physical equations exhibit structural regularities that set them apart from arbitrary mathematical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-11 Andrei Constantin , Deaglan Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

The complexity of human interactions with social and natural phenomena is mirrored in the way we describe our experiences through natural language. In order to retain and convey such a high dimensional information, the statistical…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-04-09 Eduardo G. Altmann , Giampaolo Cristadoro , Mirko Degli Esposti

We present a novel asynchronous hyper linear time temporal logic named LPrL (Linear Time Predicate Logic) and establish its basic theory. LPrL is a natural first order extension of LTL (Linear time temporal logic), in which the predicates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Parasara Sridhar Duggirala , P. S. Thiagarajan

Temporal information conveyed by language describes how the world around us changes through time. Events, durations and times are all temporal elements that can be viewed as intervals. These intervals are sometimes temporally related in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Leon Derczynski , Robert Gaizauskas

This article introduces three invariance principles under which P is different from NP. In the second part a theorem of convergence is proven. This theorem states that for any language L there exists an infinite sequence of languages from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mircea Alexandru Popescu Moscu

Even though people in our contemporary, technological society are depending on communication, our understanding of the underlying laws of human communicational behavior continues to be poorly understood. Here we investigate the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-15 Diego Rybski , Sergey V. Buldyrev , Shlomo Havlin , Fredrik Liljeros , Hernan A. Makse

Some authors have recently argued that a finite-size scaling law for the text-length dependence of word-frequency distributions cannot be conceptually valid. Here we give solid quantitative evidence for the validity of such scaling law,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-04-12 Alvaro Corral , Francesc Font-Clos

The paper contains an interesting generalization of the classical Taylor expansion formula and four applications

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-06-27 D. V. Ionescu

Identifying temporal relations between events is an essential step towards natural language understanding. However, the temporal relation between two events in a story depends on, and is often dictated by, relations among other events.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Qiang Ning , Zhili Feng , Dan Roth

Classical ecological models predict that large, diverse communities should be unstable, presenting a central challenge to explaining the stable biodiversity seen in nature. We revisit this long-standing problem by extending the generalized…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-17 Amer Al-Hiyasat , Daniel W. Swartz , Jeff Gore , Mehran Kardar

The distribution of living languages is investigated and scaling relations are found for the diversity of languages as a function of the country area and population. These results are compared with data from Ecology and from computer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. F. Gomes , G. L. Vasconcelos , I. J. Tsang , I. R. Tsang

To know the statistical distribution of a variable is an important problem in management of resources. Distributions of the power law type are observed in many real systems. However power law distributions have an infinite variance and thus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Hari M. Gupta , Jose R. Campanha

The propagation of chaos and associated law of large numbers for mean-field interacting age-dependent Hawkes processes (when the number of processes n goes to +$\infty$) being granted by the study performed in (Chevallier, 2015), the aim of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Julien Chevallier

An expanding literature articulates the view that Taylor rules are helpful in predicting exchange rates. In a changing world however, Taylor rule parameters may be subject to structural instabilities, for example during the Global Financial…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-03-05 Joseph Byrne , Dimitris Korobilis , Pinho Ribeiro

We use an information-theoretic measure of linguistic similarity to investigate the organization and evolution of scientific fields. An analysis of almost 20M papers from the past three decades reveals that the linguistic similarity is…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Laercio Dias , Martin Gerlach , Joachim Scharloth , Eduardo G. Altmann

A wide range of natural and social phenomena result in observables whose distributions can be well approximated by a power-law decay. The well-known Hill estimator of the tail exponent provides results which are in many respects superior to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-20 Éva Rácz , János Kertész , Zoltán Eisler

Evaluating whether large language models (LLMs) capture the structure of natural language beyond local fluency remains an open challenge. Existing evaluation methods, largely based on task performance or short-context behavior, provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

The fluctuation theorems have remained one of the cornerstones in the study of systems that are driven far out of equilibrium, and they provide strong constraints on the fraction of trajectories that behave atypically in light of the second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar