arXiv · 2311.10217
A Language and Its Dimensions: Intrinsic Dimensions of Language Fractal Structures
Abstract
The present paper introduces a novel object of study - a language fractal structure. We hypothesize that a set of embeddings of all $n$-grams of a natural language constitutes a representative sample of this fractal set. (We use the term Hailonakea to refer to the sum total of all language fractal structures, over all $n$). The paper estimates intrinsic (genuine) dimensions of language fractal structures for the Russian and English languages. To this end, we employ methods based on (1) topological data analysis and (2) a minimum spanning tree of a data graph for a cloud of points considered (Steele theorem). For both languages, for all $n$, the intrinsic dimensions appear to be non-integer values (typical for fractal sets), close to 9 for both of the Russian and English language.
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Vasilii A. Gromov, Nikita S. Borodin, Asel S. Yerbolova. 2023-11-16. A Language and Its Dimensions: Intrinsic Dimensions of Language Fractal Structures. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10217
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