The ubiquitous inverse relationship between word frequency and word rank is commonly
known as Zipf's law. The theoretical underpinning of this law states that the inverse …

The problem of compression in standard information theory consists of assigning codes as
short as possible to numbers. Here we consider the problem of optimal coding–under an …

The birth and the history of sonnets are well-known and need not be repeated here. The fact
that they consist of 4+ 4+ 3+ 3 lines, but the rhymes are not always equally positioned, is …

Quantitative experimental methods have been increasingly used in the humanities in recent
years. We can hardly imagine the disciplines of social science, such as psychology …

The present study proposes an analysis process to assess and enrich the results of a
previous qualitative study on science and spirituality (Sbalchiero in Scienza e spiritualità …

The research aims to investigate several features of inaugural addresses of the presidents of
the United States. The goal of the paper is to observe the presidential speeches from a …

The book presents methods for the objective analysis of poetic language. Common objects
of literary studies such as rhythm, semantic explications, interpretation and personal …

Moving from Labbé's proposal envisaging the use of intertextual distance to measure the
similarity (and dissimilarity) of texts, this paper proposes a new calculation procedure based …

The aim of the article is to evaluate and address the limits of an existing approach to the
analysis of the thematic concentration of text. To overcome these limits, the article proposes …

Annual speeches of Czech and Czechoslovak presidents on the occasion of the end of the
year are analyzed in this study. Several stylometric methods are used, namely, vocabulary …