Currently, there is little agreement as to how Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems
should be evaluated, with a particularly high degree of variation in the way that human …

The science of complexity aims to answer the question of what rules nature chooses when
assembling the basic constituents of matter and energy into structures and dynamical …

Text preprocessing is not only an essential step to prepare the corpus for modeling but also
a key area that directly affects the natural language processing (NLP) application results. For …

Despite being a paradigm of quantitative linguistics, Zipf's law for words suffers from three
main problems: its formulation is ambiguous, its validity has not been tested rigorously from …

The size or energy of diverse structures or phenomena in geoscience appears to follow
power law distributions. A rigorous statistical analysis of such observations is tricky, though …

Automatic image description systems typically produce generic sentences that only make
use of a small subset of the vocabulary available to them. In this paper, we consider the …

Beauty is subjective, and as such it, of course, cannot be defined in absolute terms. But we
all know or feel when something is beautiful to us personally. And in such instances …

The emotions that can be considered members of the set of Aesthetic Emotions (AEs) is
controversial. The present study investigated the terms used by researchers in peer …

Zipf's law, as a power-law regularity, confirms long-range correlations between the elements
in natural and artificial systems. In this article, this law is evaluated for one hundred live …

An important body of quantitative linguistics is constituted by a series of statistical laws about
language usage. Despite the importance of these linguistic laws, some of them are poorly …