[Corpora-List] Distribution of mutual information?

[Linas Vepstas]

I've recently graphed the probability distribution below, its the
mutual information of word-pairs occurring in the same sentence.

I don't recognize the shape. What is it? It is not any of the standard
probability distributions, as far as I can tell. But surely, I am not
the first to observe this. It seems to have a fat tail, but that
doesn't concern me much; its the oddly mis-shapen nose at the top, and
the log-linear sides that have my interest.

I explain just a bit more at http://brainwave.opencog.org/ if that helps.

--linas
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