Defining thermodynamic parameters for texts from word rank-frequency distributions
Andrij A. Rovenchak, Solomija Buk · Journal of Physical Studies · 2011
We report the results regarding the calculation of a new parameter set obtained from the rank-frequency distribution of texts.The parameters are defined using the analogy between the rank-frequency distribution and the quantum Bose-distribution.The calculations are made for the translations of The Little Prince, a novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, into forty languages from different language families.The obtained data suggest the connection between the type of the language grammar and the defined parameters.