Formal and functional theories of language seem disparate, because formal theories answer
the question of what a language is, while functional theories answer the question of what …

The choice associated with words is a fundamental property of natural languages. It lies at
the heart of quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics and language sciences more …

The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical
analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic …

Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information.
While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly …

For a long time, translation researchers, particularly those working in corpus-based
translation studies, have held the presumption that translated texts tend to be simpler in …

Context: App developers spend exhaustive manual efforts towards the identification and
prioritization of informative end-user reviews. Informative reviews are those that express end …

While the languages of the world differ in many respects, they share certain commonalties,
which can provide insight on our shared cognition. Here, we explore the learnability …

Discover new theoretical connections between stochastic phenomena and the structure of
natural language with this powerful volume! Information Theory Meets Power Laws …

1.1 Aims For nearly hundred years, researchers have noticed how language ubiquitously
follows certain mathematical properties. These properties differ from linguistic universals that …

Computational language models (LMs), most notably exemplified by the widespread
success of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, show impressive performance on a wide range of …