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Majority-vote model with limited visibility: an investigation into filter bubbles
Andre L. M. Vilela, Luiz Felipe C. Pereira, Laercio Dias +2
The dynamics of opinion formation in a society is a complex phenomenon where many variables play an important role. Recently, the influence of algorithms to filter which content is…
Using text analysis to quantify the similarity and evolution of scientific disciplines
Laercio Dias, Martin Gerlach, Joachim Scharloth +1
We use an information-theoretic measure of linguistic similarity to investigate the organization and evolution of scientific fields. An analysis of almost 20M papers from the past…
Generalized Entropies and the Similarity of Texts
Eduardo G. Altmann, Laercio Dias, Martin Gerlach
We show how generalized Gibbs-Shannon entropies can provide new insights on the statistical properties of texts. The universal distribution of word frequencies (Zipf's law) implies…