During the last years, several methods from the statistical physics of complex systems have
been applied to the study of natural language written texts. They have mostly been focused …

This paper presents analysis of 30 literary texts written in English by different authors. For
each text, there were created time series representing length of sentences in words and …

ABSTRACT Both the Menzerath-Altmann law and the Zipf-Mandelbrot law note that
language is a fractal structure and, like any other fractals, follows power laws. Studies on …

In this paper, we analyze the fractal structure of long human language records by mapping
large samples of texts onto time series. The particular mapping set up in this work is inspired …

In natural language using short sentences is considered efficient for communication.
However, a text composed exclusively of such sentences looks technical and reads boring …

Should quality be almost a synonymous of complexity? To measure quality appears to be
audacious, even very subjective. It is hereby proposed to use a multifractal approach in …

The study of languages' structure and their organization in a set of well-defined relation
schemes is a delicate matter. In the last decades, the convergence of traditional conflicting …

This study investigates global properties of three categories of English text: canonical fiction,
non-canonical fiction, and non-fictional texts. The central hypothesis of the study is that there …

We perform a numerical study of the statistical properties of natural texts written in English
and of two types of artificial texts. As statistical tools we use the conventional Zipf analysis of …

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 …