Modeling the Chinese language as an evolving network

作者：Liang, Wei; Shi, Yuming^*; Huang, Qiuling

来源：Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications , 2014, 393: 268-276.

DOI：10.1016/j.physa.2013.08.034

• Language
• Model
• Scale-free
• Character co-occurrence network

The evolution of Chinese language has three main features: the total number of characters is gradually increasing, new words are generated in the existing characters, and some old words are no longer used in daily-life language. Based on the features, we propose an evolving language network model. Finally, we use this model to simulate the character co-occurrence networks (nodes are characters, and two characters are connected by an edge if they are adjacent to each other) constructed from essays in 11 different periods of China, and find that characters that appear with high frequency in old words are likely to be reused when new words are formed.

• 出版日期2014-1-1
• 单位山东大学; 山东财经大学; 河南理工大学