Structural organization and scale-free properties in Chinese Phrase Networks

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1304-1308

  Li, Yong ^a,b   Wei, Luoxia ^b   Niu, Yi ^b   Yin, Junxun ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DONGGUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese Phrase Networks; Complex networks; Degree distributions; Monkey language; Random text; Scale free

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749678444     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/982004-771     Document Type: Article

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