Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Theory and models 7
5. On the impact of the initial phrase length on the position of enclitics in Old Czech 9
6. Term distance, frequency and collocations 21
7. A method for the comparison of general sequences via type-token ratio 37
8. Quantitative analysis of syllable properties in Croatian, Serbian, Russian, and Ukrainian 55
9. N -grams of grammatical functions and their significant order in the Japanese clause 69
10. Linking the dependents 93
11. Grammar efficiency and the One-Meaning–One-Form Principle 109
12. Distribution and characteristics of commonly used words across different texts in Japanese 121
13. Part II. Empirical studies 135
14. The perils of big data 137
15. From distinguishability to informativity 145
16. A Modern Greek readability tool 163
17. Phonological properties as predictors of text success 177
18. Calculating the victory chances 195
19. Topological mapping for visualisation of high-dimensional historical linguistic data 209
20. Book genre and author’s gender recognition based on titles 225
21. Quantitative analysis of bibliographic corpora 239
22. Analysis of English text genre classification based on dependency types 257
23. In memory of Gabriel Altmann 271
24. Index 277