About "exotic" problems of physics, Winnie the Pooh and Zipf's law

Васильев, А. Н.; Chalyi, A. V.; Васильева, И В

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“…This is a serious problem, and the way to solve it passes through the application of reasonable and universal principles determining the means for the creation of mathematical models. Those means are nothing else but the approaches developed and used by physicists in order to successfully model systems of various origins, including the linguistic ones (see, e.g., works [25][26][27][28][29][30] and references therein).…”

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Physics Beyond Physics: Application of Physical Approaches in Quantitative Linguistics

Васильев¹,

Васильева²

2020

Ukr. J. Phys.

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The application of physical methods to solve non-physical problems has been considered. In particular, the prospects of physical approaches in quantitative linguistics are analyzed. The difference between the physical and non-physical methods is illustrated by an example of already existing “classical” models. A few mathematical models which make it possible to determine the rank-frequency dependence for words in a frequency dictionary, as well as the dependence of the dictionary volume on the text length, are proposed. It is shown that the physical approaches and principles that are used in physics can also be successfully applied to create mathematical models in linguistics.

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Physics Beyond Physics: Application of Physical Approaches in Quantitative Linguistics

Васильев¹,

Васильева²

2020

Ukr. J. Phys.

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“…Добре вiдомим є закон Зiпфа [41], який iз лiнгвiстичних дослiджень, де його застосовують до опису ранґово-частотних залежностей слiв у текстi [42][43][44][45], поступово поширився на iншi дiлянки науки, пов'язанi з вивченням складних систем [46][47][48][49][50][51]. У найпростiшому випадку вiн стверджує, що частота обернено пропорцiйна до ранґу,…”

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Twenty years of the Journal of Physical Studies. an attempt at a journalometric analysis

Holovatch¹,

Krasnytska²,

Mryglod³

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J. Phys. Stud.

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Проведено кiлькiсний аналiз публiкацiй "Журналу фiзичних дослiджень" за перiод 1996-2016 рр. Дослiдження спiвпрацi авторiв журналу виконано iз застосуванням теорiї складних мереж. Побудовано мережi спiвавторства, вивчено географiю та динамiку спiвпрацi, обчислено вiдповiднi характеристики складних мереж. Тематичний розгляд публiкацiй здiйснено на пiдставi рубрикатора PACS, а для аналiзу цитування опублiкованих статей застосовано декiлька моделей iз використанням дискретних та неперервних розподiлiв. Отриманi результати можуть бути корисними як для оцiнювання ролi журналу в цiлому, так i для формування редакцiйної полiтики на майбутнє. Наведенi данi сприятимуть розумiнню загальної картини розвитку науки в Українi.Ключовi слова: "Журнал фiзичних дослiджень", наукометрiя, журналометрiя, складнi мережi

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“…Sometimes, however, it would be too tempting to avoid such a step while analyzing complex systems. [8][9][10][11] Mathematical models and certain notions will be essentially borrowed from statistical physics and applied to objects and notions from beyond physics providing thus potentially new insights in these fields. This is possible due to the fact that non-random systems of many entities are characterized by certain distributions.…”

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Approaches to the classification of complex systems: Words, texts, and more

Rovenchak¹

2022

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The Chapter starts with introductory information about quantitative linguistics notions, like rank-frequency dependence, Zipf's law, frequency spectra, etc. Similarities in distributions of words in texts with level occupation in quantum ensembles hint at a superficial analogy with statistical physics. This enables one to define various parameters for texts based on this physical analogy, including "temperature", "chemical potential", entropy, and some others. Such parameters provide a set of variables to classify texts serving as an example of complex systems. Moreover, texts are perhaps the easiest complex systems to collect and analyze.Similar approaches can be developed to study, for instance, genomes due to well-known linguistic analogies. We consider a couple of approaches to define nucleotide sequences in mitochondrial DNAs and viral RNAs and demonstrate their possible application as an auxiliary tool for comparative analysis of genomes.Finally, we discuss entropy as one of the parameters, which can be easily computed from rank-frequency dependences. Being a discriminating parameter in some problems of classification of complex systems, entropy can be given a proper interpretation only in a limited class of problems. Its overall role and significance remain an open issue so far.

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About "exotic" problems of physics, Winnie the Pooh and Zipf's law

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Physics Beyond Physics: Application of Physical Approaches in Quantitative Linguistics

Physics Beyond Physics: Application of Physical Approaches in Quantitative Linguistics

Twenty years of the Journal of Physical Studies. an attempt at a journalometric analysis

Approaches to the classification of complex systems: Words, texts, and more

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