Topology of the conceptual network of language

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Motter, Adilson E ^a   de Moura, Alessandro P S ^a,b   Lai, Ying Cheng ^a   Dasgupta, Partha ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; GLOSSARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; THESAURI;

ALGEBRIC DISTRIBUTIONS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; SMALL WORLD NETWORKS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 41349116699     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.065102     Document Type: Article

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