An ecology of text: Using text retrieval to study alife on the net

Artificial Life

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 261-287

  Best, Michael L ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Evolutionary communication; Population memetics; Text analysis; USENET news

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; ECOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTAGENESIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031218145     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.1997.3.261     Document Type: Article

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