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This paper assesses if text possesses fractal properties, namely if several attributes that characterize sentences are self-similar. In order to do that, seven corpora were analyzed using several statistical tools, so as to determine if the empirical sequences for the attributes were Gaussian and self-similar. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test and two Hurst parameter estimators were employed. The results show that there is a fractal beauty in the text produced by humans and suggest that its quality is directly proportional to the self-similarity degree.
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Cordeiro, J., Inácio, P.R.M., Fernandes, D.A.B. (2015). Fractal Beauty in Text. In: Pereira, F., Machado, P., Costa, E., Cardoso, A. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_80
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