A Note of Zipf's Law, Natural Languages, and Noncoding DNA Regions

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dc.creator	Niyogi, Partha	-
dc.creator	Berwick, Robert C.	-
dc.date	2004-10-08T20:35:56Z	-
dc.date	2004-10-08T20:35:56Z	-
dc.date	1995-03-01	-
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-09T02:46:19Z	-
dc.date.available	2013-10-09T02:46:19Z	-
dc.date.issued	2013-10-09	-
dc.identifier	AIM-1530	-
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6634	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721	-
dc.description	In Phys. Rev. Letters (73:2), Mantegna et al. conclude on the basis of Zipf rank frequency data that noncoding DNA sequence regions are more like natural languages than coding regions. We argue on the contrary that an empirical fit to Zipf"s "law" cannot be used as a criterion for similarity to natural languages. Although DNA is a presumably "organized system of signs" in Mandelbrot"s (1961) sense, and observation of statistical featurs of the sort presented in the Mantegna et al. paper does not shed light on the similarity between DNA's "gramar" and natural language grammars, just as the observation of exact Zipf-like behavior cannot distinguish between the underlying processes of tossing an M-sided die or a finite-state branching process.	-
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dc.language	en_US	-
dc.relation	AIM-1530	-
dc.title	A Note of Zipf's Law, Natural Languages, and Noncoding DNA Regions	-
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