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Universal versus system-specific features of punctuation usage patterns in~major Western~languages
Tomasz Stanisz, Stanislaw Drozdz, Jaroslaw Kwapien
The celebrated proverb that "speech is silver, silence is golden" has a long multinational history and multiple specific meanings. In written texts punctuation can in fact be consi…
Linguistic data mining with complex networks: a stylometric-oriented approach
Tomasz Stanisz, Jarosław Kwapień, Stanisław Drożdż
By representing a text by a set of words and their co-occurrences, one obtains a word-adjacency network being a reduced representation of a given language sample. In this paper, th…
In narrative texts punctuation marks obey the same statistics as words
Andrzej Kulig, Jaroslaw Kwapien, Tomasz Stanisz +1
From a grammar point of view, the role of punctuation marks in a sentence is formally defined and well understood. In semantic analysis punctuation plays also a crucial role as a m…
Quantifying origin and character of long-range correlations in narrative texts
Stanisław Drożdż, Paweł Oświęcimka, Andrzej Kulig +5
In natural language using short sentences is considered efficient for communication. However, a text composed exclusively of such sentences looks technical and reads boring. A text…
Modeling the average shortest path length in growth of word-adjacency networks
Andrzej Kulig, Stanislaw Drozdz, Jaroslaw Kwapien +1
We investigate properties of evolving linguistic networks defined by the word-adjacency relation. Such networks belong to the category of networks with accelerated growth but their…
Linguistic complexity: English vs. Polish, text vs. corpus
Jaroslaw Kwapien, Stanislaw Drozdz, Adam Orczyk
We analyze the rank-frequency distributions of words in selected English and Polish texts. We show that for the lemmatized (basic) word forms the scale-invariant regime breaks afte…