The distribution of a word in a text can show whether it is a noun or a verb.
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Montemurro, M. A. & Zanette, D. H. Entropic analysis of the role of words in literary texts. Preprint available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0109218 (2001).
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Ball, P. Physicists decode the Bard. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010927-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news010927-1