Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

The unexpected outbreak of the US-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import
and export tariffs confronting Chinese firms, and ushered in an era of unprecedented trade …

1.1 Aims For nearly hundred years, researchers have noticed how language ubiquitously
follows certain mathematical properties. These properties differ from linguistic universals that …

Zipf's law, as a power-law regularity, confirms long-range correlations between the elements
in natural and artificial systems. In this article, this law is evaluated for one hundred live …

Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the
most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potential for being …

Communication is an undisputed central activity of life that requires an evolving molecular
language. It conveys meaning through messages and vocabularies. Here, I explore the …

We study the hypothesis of information panspermia assigned recently among possible
solutions of the Fermi paradox (“where are the aliens?”). It suggests that the expenses of …

Complex structure of human language enables us to exchange very complicated
information. This communication system obeys some common nonlinear statistical …

We investigate what linguistic factors affect the performance of Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR) models. We hypothesize that orthographic and phonological …

Zipf's law is found when the vocabulary of long written texts is ranked according to the
frequency of word occurrences, establishing a power-law decay for the frequency vs rank …