Study on co-occurrence character networks from Chinese essays in different periods  

作　　者：LIANG Wei SHI YuMing TSE Chi K WANG YanLi 

机构地区：[1]Department of Mathematics,Shandong University,Jinan 250100,China [2]School of Mathematics and Information Science,Henan Polytechnic University,Jiaozuo 454000,China [3]Department of Electronic and Information Engineering,Hong Kong Polytechnic University,Hong Kong,China

出　　处：《Science China(Information Sciences)》2012年第11期2417-2427,共11页中国科学（信息科学）（英文版）

基　　金：supported by Research Fund for the Doctoral Program (RFDP) of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20100131110024);Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Grant No. 1-BBZA);RFDP of Henan Polytechnic University (Grant No. B2011-032)

摘　　要：Co-occurrence networks of Chinese characters are constructed from collections of essays in different periods of China： the ancient Chinese language, the Chinese language in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties, the recent Chinese language, and the modern Chinese language, and their statistical parameters are studied. It has been found that 99.6% networks have the scale-free feature and 95.0% networks have the small- world effect. This study reveals some commonalities and differences among articles in different periods of China from a complex network perspective. There has been a controversial question as to whether the literatures in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties should belong to the ancient Chinese language or the recent Chinese language in the linguistic study. Our work shows that the statistical parameters of networks in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties are clearly different from those of networks in the other periods of China, and it seems more reasonable that the literatures in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties belong to the recent Chinese language.Co-occurrence networks of Chinese characters are constructed from collections of essays in different periods of China： the ancient Chinese language, the Chinese language in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties, the recent Chinese language, and the modern Chinese language, and their statistical parameters are studied. It has been found that 99.6% networks have the scale-free feature and 95.0% networks have the small- world effect. This study reveals some commonalities and differences among articles in different periods of China from a complex network perspective. There has been a controversial question as to whether the literatures in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties should belong to the ancient Chinese language or the recent Chinese language in the linguistic study. Our work shows that the statistical parameters of networks in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties are clearly different from those of networks in the other periods of China, and it seems more reasonable that the literatures in Wei, Jin, and Southern-Northern Dynasties belong to the recent Chinese language.

关 键 词：Chinese language ESSAY co-occurrence character network SMALL-WORLD SCALE-FREE 

分 类 号：TP393.18[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术] V271[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]