Probabilistic reading of Zipf

0356444 - ÚJČ 2011 RIV AT eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Králík, Jan
Probabilistic reading of Zipf.
Text and Language. Wien: Praesens, 2010 - (Grzybek, P.; Kelih, E.; Mačutek, J.), s. 91-98. ISBN 978-3-7069-0625-8.
[Quantitative Linguistics Conference 2009. Graz (AT), 17.09.2009-20.09.2009]
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90610521
Keywords : Zipf * law * probability * rank * utility
Subject RIV: AI - Linguistics

Any mathematical and causal analysis of the Zipf formula (law) was necessarily confronted with the artificial conception of rank. The author shows new possible probabilistic view of this problem. The conception and terms of utility and hierarchy of word probabilities are introduced. Then, strict but reversible mathematical deduction leads to the famous formula too and to its clean understanding on the probability base. This enables the very first probabilistic explanation of the Zipf formula as the real law and it opens the way for its further explanation and new interpretation.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0194964