Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words

Eduardo G. Altmann, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Adilson E. Motter, 2009. PLoS ONE.

Studies the gaps between successive uses of the same word in online discussion groups and other text collections, finding bursty, non-Poisson spacing that a stretched exponential fits well, with the strength of the effect depending on the kind of meaning a word carries.

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Altmann, E. G., Pierrehumbert, J. B., & Motter, A. E. (2009). Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007678

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Altmann, Eduardo G. et al.. “Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words.” PLoS ONE (2009). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007678.