Abstract
In their papers, Kalashnikov et al. (1986),Rachev et al. (1989) and Fomenko et al. (1990)introduced the so-called “volumefunction” describing the chronologicaldistribution of information in historical texts. Here we give anotherapproach to constructing similar functions.
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Tabov, J. Chronological Distribution of Information in Historical Texts. Computers and the Humanities 37, 235–240 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022629013690
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