Comparison of co-occurrence networks of the Chinese and English languages

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 4901-4909

  Liang, Wei ^a   Shi, Yuming ^a   Tse, Chi K ^b   Liu, Jing ^c   Wang, Yanli ^a   Cui, Xunqiang ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Co occurrence network; Language; Scale free network; Small world network

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; PHYSICS;

CHINESE CHARACTERS; CHINESE LANGUAGE; CLUSTERING COEFFICIENT; CO-OCCURRENCE NETWORKS; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS;

EID: 69549131240     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.07.047     Document Type: Article

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