Creativity and Universality in Language by Mirko Degli Esposti
This book collects research contributions concerning quantitative approaches to characterize originality and universality in language. The target audience comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
Creativity might be considered as a morphogenetic process combining universal features with originality. While quantitative methods applied to text and music reveal universal features of language and music, originality is a highly appreciated feature of authors, composers, and performers.
In this framework, the different methods of traditional problems of authorship attribution and document classification provide important insights on how to quantify the unique features of authors, composers, and styles. Such unique features contrast, and are restricted by, universal signatures, such as scaling laws in word-frequency distribution, entropy measures, long-range correlations, among others. This interplay between innovation and universality is also an essential ingredient of methods for automatic text generation.Innovation in language becomes relevant when it is imitated and spread to other speakers and musicians. Modern digital databases provide new opportunities to characterize and model the creation and evolution of linguistic innovations on historical time scales, a particularly important example of the more general problem of spreading of innovations in complex social systems.
This multidisciplinary book combines scientists from various different backgrounds interested in quantitative analysis of variations (synchronic and diachronic) in language and music. The aim is to obtain a deeper understanding of how originality emerges, can be quantified, and propagates.-
The Appearing of Sense
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Algomedia. The Image at the Time of Artificial Intelligence
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Differential Heterogenesis
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Mathematical Tools for Neuroscience
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Morphogenesis of Symbolic Forms: Meaning in Music, Art, Religion, and Language
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The Language of Images
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Morphology, Neurogeometry, Semiotics
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Models of Wave Memory
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Labour Power
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Language in Complexity
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Morphodynamics in Aesthetics
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Theories and Models of Urbanization
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Elements of Neurogeometry
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Literary Heterogenesis
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Space-Time Geometries for Motion and Perception in the Brain and the Arts
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Neuromathematics of Vision
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Perspectives on Organisms
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Morphogenesis and Individuation
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Urban Dynamics and Simulation Models
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Glossary of Morphology
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Quantitative Semiotic Analysis
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Diagrams and Gestures
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Morphogenesis of Spatial Networks
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Semiotic Perception and Dynamic Forms of Meaning
“The volume as a whole gives a richly detailed overview of the long-term, flourishing research on the mathematical statistical approach to properties of written natural languageThe chapters and the references provide details of this inventive investigation of the inherent and variable properties of natural language.” (Alice Davison, Computing Reviews, computingreviews.com, October, 2016)
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| ISBN 13 | 9783319244013 |
| ISBN 10 | 3319244019 |
| Title | Creativity and Universality in Language |
| Author | Mirko Degli Esposti |
| Series | Lecture Notes In Morphogenesis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Year published | 2016-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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