Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems.
Scaling laws characterize diverse complex systems in a broad range of fields, including physics, biology, finance, and social science. The human language is another example of a complex system of words organization. Studies on written texts have shown that scaling laws characterize the occurrence fr...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-01-01
|
| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5179102?pdf=render |
| _version_ | 1818129745240391680 |
|---|---|
| author | Shan Li Ruokuang Lin Chunhua Bian Qianli D Y Ma Plamen Ch Ivanov |
| author_facet | Shan Li Ruokuang Lin Chunhua Bian Qianli D Y Ma Plamen Ch Ivanov |
| author_sort | Shan Li |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Scaling laws characterize diverse complex systems in a broad range of fields, including physics, biology, finance, and social science. The human language is another example of a complex system of words organization. Studies on written texts have shown that scaling laws characterize the occurrence frequency of words, words rank, and the growth of distinct words with increasing text length. However, these studies have mainly concentrated on the western linguistic systems, and the laws that govern the lexical organization, structure and dynamics of the Chinese language remain not well understood. Here we study a database of Chinese and English language books. We report that three distinct scaling laws characterize words organization in the Chinese language. We find that these scaling laws have different exponents and crossover behaviors compared to English texts, indicating different words organization and dynamics of words in the process of text growth. We propose a stochastic feedback model of words organization and text growth, which successfully accounts for the empirically observed scaling laws with their corresponding scaling exponents and characteristic crossover regimes. Further, by varying key model parameters, we reproduce differences in the organization and scaling laws of words between the Chinese and English language. We also identify functional relationships between model parameters and the empirically observed scaling exponents, thus providing new insights into the words organization and growth dynamics in the Chinese and English language. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-11T07:54:01Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-68b1e6232904432fbe922b5fa1dad5ed |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1932-6203 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-11T07:54:01Z |
| publishDate | 2016-01-01 |
| publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
| record_format | Article |
| series | PLoS ONE |
| spelling | doaj.art-68b1e6232904432fbe922b5fa1dad5ed2022-12-22T01:15:15ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032016-01-011112e016897110.1371/journal.pone.0168971Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems.Shan LiRuokuang LinChunhua BianQianli D Y MaPlamen Ch IvanovScaling laws characterize diverse complex systems in a broad range of fields, including physics, biology, finance, and social science. The human language is another example of a complex system of words organization. Studies on written texts have shown that scaling laws characterize the occurrence frequency of words, words rank, and the growth of distinct words with increasing text length. However, these studies have mainly concentrated on the western linguistic systems, and the laws that govern the lexical organization, structure and dynamics of the Chinese language remain not well understood. Here we study a database of Chinese and English language books. We report that three distinct scaling laws characterize words organization in the Chinese language. We find that these scaling laws have different exponents and crossover behaviors compared to English texts, indicating different words organization and dynamics of words in the process of text growth. We propose a stochastic feedback model of words organization and text growth, which successfully accounts for the empirically observed scaling laws with their corresponding scaling exponents and characteristic crossover regimes. Further, by varying key model parameters, we reproduce differences in the organization and scaling laws of words between the Chinese and English language. We also identify functional relationships between model parameters and the empirically observed scaling exponents, thus providing new insights into the words organization and growth dynamics in the Chinese and English language.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5179102?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Shan Li Ruokuang Lin Chunhua Bian Qianli D Y Ma Plamen Ch Ivanov Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems. PLoS ONE |
| title | Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems. |
| title_full | Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems. |
| title_fullStr | Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems. |
| title_short | Model of the Dynamic Construction Process of Texts and Scaling Laws of Words Organization in Language Systems. |
| title_sort | model of the dynamic construction process of texts and scaling laws of words organization in language systems |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5179102?pdf=render |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT shanli modelofthedynamicconstructionprocessoftextsandscalinglawsofwordsorganizationinlanguagesystems AT ruokuanglin modelofthedynamicconstructionprocessoftextsandscalinglawsofwordsorganizationinlanguagesystems AT chunhuabian modelofthedynamicconstructionprocessoftextsandscalinglawsofwordsorganizationinlanguagesystems AT qianlidyma modelofthedynamicconstructionprocessoftextsandscalinglawsofwordsorganizationinlanguagesystems AT plamenchivanov modelofthedynamicconstructionprocessoftextsandscalinglawsofwordsorganizationinlanguagesystems |