Time Series of Linguistic Networks by Example of the Patrologia Latina

Time Series of Linguistic Networks by Example of the Patrologia Latina

Title: Time Series of Linguistic Networks by Example of the Patrologia Latina
Authors: Alexander Mehler , Rüdiger Gleim, Ulli Waltinger and Nils Diewald
Pub/Conf: INFORMATIK 2010: Service Science, September 27 – October 01, 2010

Abstract:
We analyze a corpus of historical texts in terms of complex network theory. This is done by means of the Patrologia Latina, a collection of Latin documents that were written over a period of more than 1,000 years. We perform a lemmatization of this corpus and map its documents onto the end of the productive period of the corresponding authors. By means of this temporal ordering, we perform a transitivity analysis on the level of lexemes and sentences as a function of time. This analysis shows a remarkable law-like behavior of transitivity on the lexical and sentential level.

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{1904144,

  author       = {Mehler, Alexander and Gleim, R{\"u}diger and Waltinger, Ulli and Diewald, Nils},
  editor       = {Klaus-Peter F{\"a}hnrich and Bogdan Franczyk},
  language     = {English},
  pages        = {609--616},
  publisher    = {GI},
  series       = {Proceedings of INFORMATIK 2010: Service Science, September 27 - October 01, 2010, Leipzig},
  title        = {Time Series of Linguistic Networks by Example of the Patrologia Latina},
  volume       = {2},
  year         = {2010},
}

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