Towards a Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Complex Linguistic Networks

✍ Scribed by Alexander Mehler, Andy Lücking, Sven Banisch, Philippe Blanchard, Barbara Job (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to advocate and promote network models of linguistic systems that are both based on thorough mathematical models and substantiated in terms of linguistics. In this way, the book contributes first steps towards establishing a statistical network theory as a theoretical basis of linguistic network analysis the boarder of the natural sciences and the humanities. This book addresses researchers who want to get familiar with theoretical developments, computational models and their empirical evaluation in the field of complex linguistic networks. It is intended to all those who are interested in statistical models of linguistic systems from the point of view of network research. This includes all relevant areas of linguistics ranging from phonological, morphological and lexical networks on the one hand and syntactic, semantic and pragmatic networks on the other. In this sense, the volume concerns readers from many disciplines such as physics, linguistics, computer science and information science. It may also be of interest for the upcoming area of systems biology with which the chapters collected here share the view on systems from the point of view of network analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Language Networks as Models of Cognition: Understanding Cognition through Language....Pages 3-28
Path-Length and the Misperception of Speech: Insights from Network Science and Psycholinguistics....Pages 29-45
Structure and Organization of the Mental Lexicon: A Network Approach Derived from Syntactic Dependency Relations and Word Associations....Pages 47-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Network Motifs Are a Powerful Tool for Semantic Distinction....Pages 83-105
Multidimensional Analysis of Linguistic Networks....Pages 107-131
Semantic Space as a Metapopulation System: Modelling the Wikipedia Information Flow Network....Pages 133-151
Are Word-Adjacency Networks Networks?....Pages 153-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Syntactic Complex Networks and Their Applications....Pages 167-186
Function Nodes in Chinese Syntactic Networks....Pages 187-201
Non-crossing Dependencies: Least Effort, Not Grammar....Pages 203-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Simulating the Effects of Cross-Generational Cultural Transmission on Language Change....Pages 237-256
Social Networks and Beyond in Language Change....Pages 257-277
Emergence of Dominant Opinions in Presence of Rigid Individuals....Pages 279-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Considerations for a Linguistic Network Markup Language....Pages 299-330
Linguistic Networks – An Online Platform for Deriving Collocation Networks from Natural Language Texts....Pages 331-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-343

✦ Subjects

Complexity; Computational Linguistics; Complex Networks; Language Translation and Linguistics