In this article, we consider Zipf-Mandelbrot law as applied to texts in natural languages. We present a simple model of dependence of the law on the text size, which is featured by variable power-law tail and constant ratio of the most frequent words. As a result we derive several closed formulas, which accord with empirical data qualitatively and partially quantitatively. For example, there ap...

This article is a follow-up to my earlier essay on the basic literary structure of the eight major visions of the book of Revelation.' For the sake of convenient reference, Diagram 3 of my previous article is here reproduced (on the following page) as Diagram 1 for the present article. The blocs of text upon which our attention focuses in this study are those designated "A" in this Diagram; nam...

In her article "Literary Aspects in New Media Art Works" examples of new media literature in the works of While Železnikar is primarily a net interventions, the literary segments in uses them to initiate a happening. works which require a readerly perception flavor of such works which can later offer works of art. > ISSN 1481-4374 <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb Purdue University Press , the...

We present WordSeer, an exploratory analysis environment for literary text. Literature study is a cycle of reading, interpretation, exploration, and understanding. While there is now abundant technological support for reading and interpreting literary text in new ways through text-processing algorithms, the other parts of the cycle—exploration and understanding—have been relatively neglected. W...

Many existing approaches for measuring text complexity tend to overestimate the complexity levels of informational texts while simultaneously underestimating the complexity levels of literary texts. We present a two-stage estimation technique that successfully addresses this problem. At Stage 1, each text is classified into one or another of three possible genres: informational, literary or mix...

extended abstract 1. introduction according to toury (1995), translation is a norm-based behavior. in the course of their direct and indirect trainings, translators familiarize themselves with the linguistic, cultural and social norms which are used by the contemporary translators and later, as professional translators, use them consciously or unconsciously in their translations. in other words...