Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 1994 · 94 citations · 3 references
ComputingLinguisticsPhonologyLanguage ModelingLanguage ModelsVocabulary SizeCompound Poisson DistributionsCompound Poisson ModelsCompound Poisson ProcessesLexical DistributionSentence Length Distribution
Abstract A method for modeling word length distributions and different models are presented. The compound Poisson and Ord family of distributions seems to be adequate. The relationship of word length to other language phenomena is discussed.
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Three Classes of Univariate Discrete Distributions
C. G. Khatri, Ishan Patel · Biometrics · 1961 · 25 citations