Insights on the Hierarchy of Letters in Scrabble Using Cosine Similarity, Minimum Spanning Tree, and Centrality Analysis

• Main Authors: Tolentino, Mark Anthony C, Lee, Vince Andrew L, Lorenzo, Axirazel D, Ramos, Tristan Emmanuel A
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Applied Mathematics; Mathematics; Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/mathematics-faculty-pubs/248; https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0192067

This study aims to generate insights on the hierarchy and importance of letters in the game Scrabble by employing two operational research frameworks. Both frameworks begin by using a vector space model whose basis vectors are all the valid Scrabble words and where each letter is treated as a vector...