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    • Does like seek like?: the formation of working groups in a programming project 

      Sanou Gozalo, Eduard; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Arias Vicente, Marta; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (OmniaScience, 2017-06)
      Article
      Accés obert
      In a course of the degree of computer science, the programming project has changed from individual to teamed work, tentatively in couples (pair programming). Students have full freedom to team up with minimum intervention ...
    • Edge crossings in random linear arrangements 

      Alemany Puig, Lluís; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2020-02-19)
      Article
      Accés obert
      In spatial networks vertices are arranged in some space and edges may cross. When arranging vertices in a 1D lattice edges may cross when drawn above the vertex sequence as it happens in linguistic and biological networks. ...
    • Efficient coding in dolphin surface behavioral patterns 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Lusseau, David (2009-05)
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      We show that the law of brevity, i.e. the tendency of words to shorten as their frequency increases, is also found in dolphin surface behavioral patterns. As far as we know, this is the first evidence of the law in another ...
    • El bajo rendimiento teórico de los alumnos en asignaturas teórico-prácticas: posibles soluciones 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Arias Vicente, Marta (2010)
      Comunicació de congrés
      Accés obert
      En este trabajo analizamos el rendimiento de los alumnos a lo largo de tres cuatrimestres en la asignatura compiladores de la ingeniería informática. Esta asignatura combina conocimientos teóricos sobre compilación con el ...
    • Estalvi energètic a les llengües 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (Arts Santa Mònica, 2009)
      Capítol de llibre
      Accés obert
    • Estrategias de mejora del rendimiento en una asignatura teórica difícil de la fase selectiva 

      Arias Vicente, Marta; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (2010)
      Comunicació de congrés
      Accés obert
      La asignatura de Introducción a la Lógica es una asignatura del primer año de Ingeniería en Informática impartida en la Facultad de Informática de Barcelona (UPC). La asignatura fue rediseñada en el curso 06-07 y pasó a ...
    • Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (2004-11)
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      We study the Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words in sentences. The average distance is significantly small and is a very slowly growing function of sentence length. We consider two nonexcluding hypotheses: ...
    • Fast calculation of entropy with Zhang's estimator 

      Lozano Boixadors, Antoni; Casas Fernández, Bernardino; Bentz, Chris; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (RAM - Verlag, 2016-12-01)
      Capítol de llibre
      Accés restringit per política de l'editorial
      Entropy is a fundamental property of a repertoire. Here, we present an efficient algorithm to estimate the entropy of types with the help of Zhang’s estimator. The algorithm takes advantage of the fact that the number of ...
    • Gelada vocal sequences follow Menzerath's linguistic law 

      Gustison, Morgan; Semple, Stuart; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Bergman, Thore (2016-03-04)
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      Identifying universal principles underpinning diverse natural systems is a key goal of the life sciences. A powerful approach in addressing this goal has been to test whether patterns consistent with linguistic laws are ...
    • Hidden communication aspects in the exponent of Zipf's law 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (RAM-Verlag, 2005)
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      This article focuses on communication systems following Zipf’s law, in a study of the rel-ationship between the properties of those communication systems and the exponent of the law. The properties of communication systems ...
    • Hubiness, length, crossings and their relationships in dependency trees 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (RAM-Verlag, 2013-05-29)
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      Here tree dependency structures are studied from three different perspectives: their degree variance (hubiness), the mean dependency length and the number of dependency crossings. Bounds that reveal pairwise dependencies ...
    • Information content versus word length in random typing 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Moscoso del Prado Martín, Fermín (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2011-12)
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      Recently, it has been claimed that a linear relationship between a measure of information content and word length is expected from word length optimization and it has been shown that this linearity is supported by a strong ...
    • José María de Oleza Arredondo, S.J. (1887-1975) 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (RAM-Verlag, 2018-05)
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      A short piece on the life of José María de Oleza Arredondo S.J., one of the founders of Quantitative Linguistics in Catalonia
    • Kauffman's adjacent possible in word order evolution 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (2016)
      Text en actes de congrés
      Accés obert
      Word order evolution has been hypothesized to be constrained by a word order permutation ring: transitions involving orders that are closer in the permutation ring are more likely. The hypothesis can be seen as a particular ...
    • Language: universals, principles and origins 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2003-12-12)
      Tesi
      Accés obert
      Here, old and new linguistic universals, i.e. properties obeyed by all languages on Earth are investigated. Basic principles of language predicting linguistic universals are also investigated. More precisely, two principles ...
    • Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Solé Vicente, Ricard (2003-02)
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      The emergence of a complex language is one of the fundamental events of human evolution, and several remarkable features suggest the presence of fundamental principles of organization. These principles seem to be common ...
    • Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Gómez Rodríguez, Carlos (2016-02-25)
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      A commentary on the article “Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages” by Futrell, Mahowald & Gibson (PNAS 2015 112 (33) 10336-10341).
    • Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in random projective linearizations of trees 

      Alemany Puig, Lluís; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (The MIT Press. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)
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      The syntactic structure of a sentence is often represented using syntactic dependency trees. The sum of the distances between syntactically related words has been in the limelight for the past decades. Research on dependency ...
    • Linguistic laws in biology 

      Semple, Stuart; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Gustison, Morgan L. (2022-01)
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      Linguistic laws, the common statistical patterns of human language, have been investigated by quantitative linguists for nearly a century. Recently, biologists from a range of disciplines have started to explore the ...
    • Linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication 

      Heesen, Raphaela; Hobaiter, Catherine; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Semple, Stuart (2019-02-13)
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      Studies testing linguistic laws outside language have provided important insights into the organization of biological systems. For example, patterns consistent with Zipf's law of abbreviation (which predicts a negative ...