The Zipf Principle

Submitted by swalker on Sun, 2009-11-15 16:05

The principle of least effort argues that people will act so as to minimize their probable average rate of work (i.e., not only to minimize the work that they would have to do immediately, but taking due consideration of future work that might result from doing work poorly in the short term).

Chapter 1, Foundations of Statistical NLP

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