Zipf's law

Zipf +‎ law. After George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist. From the observed distribution of a word's frequency of occurrence against its rank of occurrence, discovered in Zipf's research, as a graph of logarithm of frequency against logarithm of ranking resulting in a straight line with -1 slope.

Zipf's law

1. The fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution.
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     So Zipf’s Law suggests that you scale all your word frequencies (and document frequencies) with the log() function, the inverse of exp().

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