Text and Language. - Wien : Praesens, 2010 / Grzybek P. ; Kelih E. ; Mačutek J.
- ISBN 978-3-7069-0625-8
Pages
s. 91-98
Number of pages
8 s.
Action
Quantitative Linguistics Conference 2009
Event date
17.09.2009-20.09.2009
VEvent location
Graz
Country
AT - Austria
Event type
WRD
Language
eng - English
Country
AT - Austria
Keywords
Zipf ; law ; probability ; rank ; utility
Subject RIV
AI - Linguistics
CEZ
AV0Z90610521 - UJC-A (2005-2011)
Annotation
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.
