Publications on information theory
Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. Moscoso del Prado Martín, F. (2011).
Information content versus word length in random typing. Journal of
Statistical Mechanics, L12002.
[ doi:
10.1088/1742-5468/2011/12/L12002 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2010). Information theory. In: The Cambridge
encyclopedia of the language sciences, Colm Hogan, P. (ed.).
Cambridge University Press. In press.
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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Elvevåg, B.
(2010). Random texts do not
exhibit the real Zipf's law-like rank distribution. PLoS ONE 5 (3),
e9411.
[ doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0009411 ]
Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Gavaldà, R.
(2009). The frequency spectrum of
finite samples from the intermittent silence process. Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology 60 (4), 837-843.
[ doi: 10.1002/asi.21033
]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Díaz-Guilera, A.
(2007). The global minima of the communicative energy of natural
communication systems. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P06009.
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doi:
10.1088/1742-5468/2007/06/P06009 ]
Ferrer
i Cancho, R.
and Lusseau, D. (2006). Long-term correlations in the surface behavior
of dolphins. Europhysics
Letters 74, 1095-1101.
[ doi:
10.1209/epl/i2005-10596-9
]
Ferrer
i Cancho, R.
(2006). On the universality of Zipf's law for word frequencies. In:
"Exact
methods in the study of language and text. In honor
of Gabriel Altmann", Grzybek, P. and Köhler,R. (eds.) 131-140.
Berlin: Gruyter.
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Ferrer
i Cancho, R.
(2006). When language breaks into pieces. A
conflict between communication through isolated signals and language.
Biosystems 84, 242-253.
[ doi:
10.1016/j.biosystems.2005.12.001
]
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
(2005). The variation of Zipf's law in human language. European
Physical Journal B 44, 249-257.
[ doi:
10.1140/epjb/e2005-00121-8 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
(2005). Zipf's law from a communicative phase transition. European
Physical Journal B 47, 449-457.
[ doi:
10.1140/epjb/e2005-00340-y ]
Ferrer
i Cancho, R.
(2005). Hidden communication aspects in
the exponent of Zipf's law. Glottometrics 11,
96-117.
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
(2005). Decoding least effort and scaling in signal frequency
distributions. Physica A 345, 275-284.
[ doi:
10.1016/j.physa.2004.06.158 ]
Ferrer
i Cancho, R.
& Solé, R. V. (2003). Least effort and the origins of
scaling in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA. 100, 788-791.
[ doi:
10.1073/pnas.0335980100 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
and Reina, F. (2002). Quantifying the semantic contribution of
particles. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 9, 35-47.
[ doi:
10.1076/jqul.9.1.35.8483 ]