This booklet collects examine contributions touching on quantitative ways to symbolize originality and universality in language. the objective viewers contains researchers and specialists within the box however the booklet can also be priceless for graduate students.

Creativity may be regarded as a morphogenetic strategy combining common gains with originality. whereas quantitative equipment utilized to textual content and song demonstrate common beneficial properties of language and track, originality is a hugely favored function of authors, composers, and performers.

In this framework, the various tools of conventional difficulties of authorship attribution and record category offer very important insights on how one can quantify the original positive factors of authors, composers, and types. Such distinctive good points distinction, and are limited by way of, common signatures, reminiscent of scaling legislation in word-frequency distribution, entropy measures, long-range correlations, between others. This interaction among innovation and universality can also be a vital component of tools for computerized textual content generation.

Innovation in language turns into suitable whilst it's imitated and unfold to different audio system and musicians. smooth electronic databases offer new possibilities to symbolize and version the production and evolution of linguistic strategies on historic time scales, a very vital instance of the extra basic challenge of spreading of options in advanced social systems.

This multidisciplinary booklet combines scientists from a variety of various backgrounds drawn to quantitative research of diversifications (synchronic and diachronic) in language and song. the purpose is to procure a deeper knowing of ways originality emerges, could be quantified, and propagates.