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Quantifying patterns of punctuation in modern Chinese prose
Michał Dolina, Jakub Dec, Stanisław Drożdż +3
Recent research shows that punctuation patterns in texts exhibit universal features across languages. Analysis of Western classical literature reveals that the distribution of spac…
Multifractal hopscotch in "Hopscotch" by Julio Cortazar
Jakub Dec, Michał Dolina, Stanisław Drożdż +2
Punctuation is the main factor introducing correlations in natural language written texts and it crucially impacts their overall effectiveness, expressiveness, and readability. Pun…
Punctuation patterns in "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce are largely translation-invariant
Krzysztof Bartnicki, Stanisław Drożdż, Jarosław Kwapień +1
The complexity characteristics of texts written in natural languages are significantly related to the rules of punctuation. In particular, the distances between punctuation marks m…
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…