Heap's Law

[Torsten]

It only shows that my simulation didn't vary some parameters. It is a simulation for the text generation mechanism and not for reconstructing the VMS. I didn't claim that a computer was used to generate the text of the VMS. The text of the VMS corresponds to its container. This means that the length of a line and the number of lines per page matters. Both parameters vary in the VMS and are constant in the simulation. 


Heap's law applies for a homogenous text. You can't put a name list and a page full of text together and say the resulting graph is following Heap's law. The same is true in the case of the VMS. There are different graphs for each section of the manuscript. Therefore the order of the sections matters. If you would reorder the sections for to Q13, Q20 and then herbal pages in Currier B you would get a different graph.

You have to split the text of the VMS into different parts. If you then compare the graphs for the different sections this can be interesting. It seems for instance that the graph for herbal pages in Currier A is similar to the graph for herbal pages in Currier B. This is an interesting result. Even if they use different word types they have something in common.