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arxiv: 1409.7336 · v2 · pith:FQL3BZHLnew · submitted 2014-09-23 · ⚛️ physics.soc-ph · cs.CL· nlin.AO· physics.data-an

Does network complexity help organize Babel's library?

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In this work, we study properties of texts from the perspective of complex network theory. Words in given texts are linked by co-occurrence and transformed into networks, and we observe that these display topological properties common to other complex systems. However, there are some properties that seem to be exclusive to texts; many of these properties depend on the frequency of words in the text, while others seem to be strictly determined by the grammar. Precisely, these properties allow for a categorization of texts as either with a sense and others encoded or senseless.

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