Data Mining Reveals Fundamental Pattern of Human Thinking

Word frequency patterns show that humans process common and uncommon words in different ways, with important consequences for natural-language processing

MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
5 min readJul 19, 2018

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Back in 1935, the American linguist George Zipf made a remarkable discovery. Zipf was curious about the…

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