Zipf's law

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf statistical law
gptkbp:appliesTo market research
natural language processing
web traffic
gptkbp:associated_with lexical diversity
gptkbp:description frequency of words in a language
gptkbp:drawings the distribution of names
gptkbp:hasPrograms economics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Zipf's law
gptkbp:is_a language use
power law
gptkbp:is_a_document_that most items are rare
gptkbp:is_a_model_for information distribution
describes the relationship between rank and frequency.
gptkbp:is_a_platform_for analyzing text corpora
text mining techniques
gptkbp:is_a_subject_of linguistics
data science
explains linguistic phenomena
quantitative linguistics
gptkbp:is_a_tool_for data analysis
gptkbp:is_available_in a rank-frequency plot
gptkbp:is_essential_for computational linguistics
language evolution
gptkbp:is_monitored_by word frequency distributions
gptkbp:is_studied_in linguists
cultural phenomena
gptkbp:is_used_in gptkb:Benford's_law
academic research
information theory
sociolinguistics
text data
machine learning models
empirical data
information entropy
gptkbp:legal_principle helps in understanding data distributions
gptkbp:previousName gptkb:George_Zipf
gptkbp:related_to Pareto principle
social_sciences
gptkbp:state the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank
gptkbp:suitableFor social networks
a few items are very common
gptkbp:usedFor word usage patterns
gptkbp:visitedBy biological systems
information retrieval
music popularity
city populations
internet search queries