Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

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∙ 03/17/2023

Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited

Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be sh...

0 Sonia Petrini, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/26/2022

The distribution of syntactic dependency distances

The syntactic structure of a sentence can be represented as a graph wher...

0 Sonia Petrini, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/22/2022

The optimality of word lengths. Theoretical foundations and an empirical study

One of the most robust patterns found in human languages is Zipf's law o...

0 Sonia Petrini, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/12/2022

Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in planar linearizations of trees

Dependency graphs have proven to be a very successful model to represent...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/14/2022

The Maximum Linear Arrangement Problem for trees under projectivity and planarity

The Maximum Linear Arrangement problem (MaxLA) consists of finding a map...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/05/2021

The Linear Arrangement Library. A new tool for research on syntactic dependency structures

The new and growing field of Quantitative Dependency Syntax has emerged ...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/18/2021

Dependency distance minimization predicts compression

Dependency distance minimization (DDm) is a well-established principle o...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/07/2021

Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in random projective linearizations of trees

The syntactic structure of a sentence is often represented using syntact...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/24/2021

The advent and fall of a vocabulary learning bias from communicative efficiency

It is well-known that, when sufficiently young children encounter a new ...

9 David Carrera-Casado, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/05/2021

Minimum projective linearizations of trees in linear time

The minimum linear arrangement problem (MLA) consists of finding a mappi...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/30/2020

The optimality of syntactic dependency distances

It is often stated that human languages, as other biological systems, ar...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/24/2020

The variation of the sum of edge lengths in linear arrangements of trees

A fundamental problem in network science is the normalization of the top...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/06/2020

Reappraising the distribution of the number of edge crossings of graphs on a sphere

Many real transportation and mobility networks have their vertices place...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/06/2020

Fast calculation of the variance of edge crossings in random linear arrangements

The interest in spatial networks where vertices are embedded in a one-di...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/09/2019

Edge crossings in random linear arrangements

In spatial networks, vertices are arranged in some space and edges may c...

0 Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/19/2019

Memory limitations are hidden in grammar

The ability to produce and understand an unlimited number of different s...

0 Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/13/2019

Anti dependency distance minimization in short sequences. A graph theoretic approach

Dependency distance minimization (DDm) is a word order principle favouri...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/04/2019

Optimal coding and the origins of Zipfian laws

The problem of compression in standard information theory consists of as...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/27/2019

Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language

The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word f...

0 Bernardino Casas, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/30/2017

The origins of Zipf's meaning-frequency law

In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf observed that more frequent words...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/24/2017

A dependency look at the reality of constituency

A comment on "Neurophysiological dynamics of phrase-structure building d...

0 Xinying Chen, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/26/2017

Fast calculation of entropy with Zhang's estimator

Entropy is a fundamental property of a repertoire. Here, we present an e...

0 Antoni Lozano, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/15/2017

Towards a theory of word order. Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al

Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/28/2017

The placement of the head that maximizes predictability. An information theoretic approach

The minimization of the length of syntactic dependencies is a well-estab...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/24/2017

Are crossing dependencies really scarce?

The syntactic structure of a sentence can be modelled as a tree, where v...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/27/2016

The polysemy of the words that children learn over time

Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learni...

0 Bernardino Casas, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/18/2016

The infochemical core

Vocalizations and less often gestures have been the object of linguistic...

0 Antoni Hernández-Fernández, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/04/2016

Compression and the origins of Zipf's law for word frequencies

Here we sketch a new derivation of Zipf's law for word frequencies based...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/13/2016

The scarcity of crossing dependencies: a direct outcome of a specific constraint?

The structure of a sentence can be represented as a network where vertic...

0 Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/17/2015

Kauffman's adjacent possible in word order evolution

Word order evolution has been hypothesized to be constrained by a word o...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/09/2015

Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century

A commentary on the article "Large-scale evidence of dependency length m...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/05/2015

A commentary on "The now-or-never bottleneck: a fundamental constraint on language", by Christiansen and Chater (2016)

In a recent article, Christiansen and Chater (2016) present a fundamenta...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/26/2015

Crossings as a side effect of dependency lengths

The syntactic structure of sentences exhibits a striking regularity: dep...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/22/2014

Reply to the commentary "Be careful when assuming the obvious", by P. Alday

Here we respond to some comments by Alday concerning headedness in lingu...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/08/2014

Optimization models of natural communication

A family of information theoretic models of communication was introduced...

0 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al. ∙

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