Creativity and Universality in Language
This book collects research contributions concerning quantitative approaches to characterize originality and universality in language. The target audience comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate stud
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Mirko Degli Esposti Eduardo G. Altmann François Pachet Editors
Creativity and Universality in Language
Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis Series editor Alessandro Sarti, CAMS Center for Mathematics, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France e-mail: [email protected]
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11247
Mirko Degli Esposti Eduardo G. Altmann François Pachet •
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Editors Mirko Degli Esposti Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Bologna Bologna Italy
François Pachet Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris France
Eduardo G. Altmann Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden Germany
ISSN 2195-1934 Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis ISBN 978-3-319-24401-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24403-7
ISSN 2195-1942
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ISBN 978-3-319-24403-7
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Preface
How can we characterize originality and innovation in authors or texts? How can we reveal universal features of language? The aim of this volume is to address these questions by confronting different quantitative approaches to originality and universality in language. New methods have shown to be increasingly successful in addressing the traditional problems of authorship attribution and document classification. These results provide insights on how to quantify the unique features of authors, composers, and styles. Such features contrast, and are restricted by, universal properties of texts, such as scaling laws in word-frequency distribution, entropy measures, and long-range correlations. This interplay between innovation and universality is also an essential ingredient of methods for automatic text generation and of models
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