Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research Article
A complex network as an abstraction of a language system has attracted much attention during the last decade. Linguistic typological research using quantitative measures is a current research topic based on the complex network approach. This research aims at showing the node degree, betweenness, sho...
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| description | A complex network as an abstraction of a language system has attracted much attention during the last decade. Linguistic typological research using quantitative measures is a current research topic based on the complex network approach. This research aims at showing the node degree, betweenness, shortest path length, clustering coefficient, and nearest neighbourhoods’ degree, as well as more complex measures such as: the fractal dimension, the complexity of a given network, the Area Under Box-covering, and the Area Under the Robustness Curve. The literary works of Mexican writers were classify according to their genre. Precisely 87% of the full word co-occurrence networks were classified as a fractal. Also, empirical evidence is presented that supports the conjecture that lemmatisation of the original text is a renormalisation process of the networks that preserve their fractal property and reveal stylistic attributes by genre. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2d2be3c9e5bf4d89917002e7eaf1938c2023-11-20T10:25:19ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002020-08-0122890410.3390/e22080904Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research ArticleAldo Ramirez-Arellano0Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería y Ciencias Sociales y Administrativas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México 07738, MexicoA complex network as an abstraction of a language system has attracted much attention during the last decade. Linguistic typological research using quantitative measures is a current research topic based on the complex network approach. This research aims at showing the node degree, betweenness, shortest path length, clustering coefficient, and nearest neighbourhoods’ degree, as well as more complex measures such as: the fractal dimension, the complexity of a given network, the Area Under Box-covering, and the Area Under the Robustness Curve. The literary works of Mexican writers were classify according to their genre. Precisely 87% of the full word co-occurrence networks were classified as a fractal. Also, empirical evidence is presented that supports the conjecture that lemmatisation of the original text is a renormalisation process of the networks that preserve their fractal property and reveal stylistic attributes by genre.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/8/904complex networksliterary worksgenre classificationstylistic attributeslemmatizationrenormalisation process |
| spellingShingle | Aldo Ramirez-Arellano Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research Article Entropy complex networks literary works genre classification stylistic attributes lemmatization renormalisation process |
| title | Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research Article |
| title_full | Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research Article |
| title_fullStr | Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research Article |
| title_full_unstemmed | Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research Article |
| title_short | Classification of Literary Works: Fractality and Complexity of the Narrative, Essay, and Research Article |
| title_sort | classification of literary works fractality and complexity of the narrative essay and research article |
| topic | complex networks literary works genre classification stylistic attributes lemmatization renormalisation process |
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