The preface is that part of a book which is written last, placed? rst, and read least. Alfred J.
Lotka Elements of Physical Biology Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company 1925 The …

Background Zipf's discovery that word frequency distributions obey a power law established
parallels between biological and physical processes, and language, laying the groundwork …

We investigate the nature of written human language within the framework of complex
network theory. In particular, we analyze the topology of Orwell's 1984 focusing on the local …

Concepts of complex networks have been used to obtain metrics that were correlated to text
quality established by scores assigned by human judges. Texts produced by high-school …

We investigate the origin of Zipf's law for words in written texts by means of a stochastic
dynamic model for text generation. The model incorporates both features related to the …

The study of complex systems is limited by the fact that only a few variables are accessible
for modeling and sampling, which are not necessarily the most relevant ones to explain the …

Thoughts and ideas are multidimensional and often concurrent, yet they can be expressed
surprisingly well sequentially by the translation into language. This reduction of dimensions …

While the use of statistical physics methods to analyze large corpora has been useful to
unveil many patterns in texts, no comprehensive investigation has been performed on the …

We introduce novel Information Theory quantifiers in a computational linguistic study that
involves a large corpus of English Renaissance literature. The 185 texts studied (136 plays …

Understanding the complexity of human language requires an appropriate analysis of the
statistical distribution of words in texts. We consider the information retrieval problem of …