Author | Baayen, R. Harald. author |
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Title | Word Frequency Distributions [electronic resource] / by R. Harald Baayen |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0844-0 |
Descript | XXII, 335 p. online resource |
1 Word Frequencies -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The frequency spectrum -- 1.3 Zipf -- 1.4 The quest for characteristic constants -- 1.5 The lognormal distribution -- 1.6 Discussion -- 1.7 Bibliographical Comments -- 1.8 Questions -- 2 Non-parametric models -- 2.1 Basic concepts -- 2.2 The Urn model -- 2.3 The Structural Type Distribution -- 2.4 The LNRE zone -- 2.5 Good-Turing estimates -- 2.6 Interpolation and Extrapolation -- 2.7 Discussion -- 2.8 Bibliographical Comments -- 2.9 Questions -- 3 Parametric models -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 LNRE models -- 3.3 Evaluating Goodness of Fit -- 3.4 Parameter estimation -- 3.5 A comparative study -- 3.6 Comparing Lexical Measures Across Texts -- 3.7 Discussion -- 3.8 Bibliographical Comments -- 3.9 Questions -- 4 Mixture distributions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Expectations, variances, and covariances -- 4.3 Examples of mixture distributions -- 4.4 Morphological Productivity -- 4.5 Discussion -- 4.6 Bibliographical Comments -- 4.7 Questions -- 5 The Randomness Assumption -- 5.1 The Randomness Assumption -- 5.2 Adjusted LNRE models -- 5.3 Discussion -- 5.4 Bibliographical Comments -- 6 Examples of Applications -- 6.1 Distributional properties of the lexicon -- 6.2 Morphological productivity -- 6.3 Authorship and Style -- 6.4 Beyond word frequency distributions -- 6.5 Some practical guidelines -- A List of Symbols -- B Solutions to the exercises -- C Software -- D Data sets