Emergent Mind
The meaning-frequency law in Zipfian optimization models of communication
(1409.7275)
Published Sep 25, 2014
in
cs.CL
,
physics.data-an
,
and
physics.soc-ph
Abstract
According to Zipf's meaning-frequency law, words that are more frequent tend to have more meanings. Here it is shown that a linear dependency between the frequency of a form and its number of meanings is found in a family of models of Zipf's law for word frequencies. This is evidence for a weak version of the meaning-frequency law. Interestingly, that weak law (a) is not an inevitable of property of the assumptions of the family and (b) is found at least in the narrow regime where those models exhibit Zipf's law for word frequencies.
We're not able to analyze this paper right now due to high demand.
Please check back later (sorry!).
Generate a summary of this paper on our Pro plan:
We ran into a problem analyzing this paper.