We present a quantitative analysis of the underlying dynamics of word distributions in written messages to congress for around three decades, expanding seven presidency periods in Chile. We evaluate word rankings and distributions of the frequency of repetition, which we believe implies a structural order similar in fashion to markers organising the text through the work of the author. We found that a change in distributions of most frequent words may be responsible for the departure from Zipf’s law, as previously observed in Spanish (Calderón et al., Braz. J. Phys. 39, 500–502 (2009)).
Topics
Probability theory
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