Selected Studies of the Principle of Relative Frequency in Language

By G. Zipf. 2014

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Experience Grounds Language (2020, background): “From the beginning of corpus linguistics (Zipf, 1932; Harris, 1954), to the formation of the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993), NLP researchers have consistently recognized the limitations of corpora in terms of coverage of language and experience.”
Zipf's law of abbreviation as a language universal (2016, background): “Zipf’s law of abbreviation [32], [30], [31] states that frequently used words tend to be shorter.”
Morphological Analyzer and Generator for Russian and Ukrainian Languages (2015, background): “Empirically, Zipf’s Law seems to hold for natural languages [14]; one of the consequences is that even doubling the size of a lexicon could increase the coverage only slightly [6].”
A Model of Text for Experimentation in the Social Sciences (2016, background): “Quantitative approaches to text data analysis have a long history in the social sciences (Mendenhall 1887; Zipf 1932; Yule 1944; Miller, Newman, and Friedman 1958).”
Access Pattern disclosure on Searchable Encryption: Ramification, Attack and Mitigation (2012, background): “According to the Zipf’s law, in a corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of appearance of an individual word is inversely proportional to its rank [24].”