no code implementations • 25 Jul 2013 • Steven T. Piantadosi, Harry Tily, Edward Gibson
Recently, Ferrer i Cancho and Moscoso del Prado Martin [arXiv:1209. 1751] argued that an observed linear relationship between word length and average surprisal (Piantadosi, Tily, & Gibson, 2011) is not evidence for communicative efficiency in human language.