Functional shortcuts in language co-occurrence networks

• Main Authors: Goh, Woon Peng, Luke, Kang-Kwong, Cheong, Siew Ann
• Other Authors: Ferrara, Emilio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Human Language; Co-occurence Networks; DRNTU::Humanities::Language
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89694; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46351
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Human language contains regular syntactic structures and grammatical patterns that should be detectable in their co-occurence networks. However, most standard complex network measures can hardly differentiate between co-occurence networks built from an empirical corpus and a body of scrambled text....