
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}, }