A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry.
Statistical methods have been widely employed to study the fundamental properties of language. In recent years, methods from complex and dynamical systems proved useful to create several language models. Despite the large amount of studies devoted to represent texts with physical models, only a limi...
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| author | Diego Raphael Amancio |
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| description | Statistical methods have been widely employed to study the fundamental properties of language. In recent years, methods from complex and dynamical systems proved useful to create several language models. Despite the large amount of studies devoted to represent texts with physical models, only a limited number of studies have shown how the properties of the underlying physical systems can be employed to improve the performance of natural language processing tasks. In this paper, I address this problem by devising complex networks methods that are able to improve the performance of current statistical methods. Using a fuzzy classification strategy, I show that the topological properties extracted from texts complement the traditional textual description. In several cases, the performance obtained with hybrid approaches outperformed the results obtained when only traditional or networked methods were used. Because the proposed model is generic, the framework devised here could be straightforwardly used to study similar textual applications where the topology plays a pivotal role in the description of the interacting agents. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b97cd385ceb4dcb9ce7bf96671007e82022-12-22T01:34:20ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01108e013607610.1371/journal.pone.0136076A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry.Diego Raphael AmancioStatistical methods have been widely employed to study the fundamental properties of language. In recent years, methods from complex and dynamical systems proved useful to create several language models. Despite the large amount of studies devoted to represent texts with physical models, only a limited number of studies have shown how the properties of the underlying physical systems can be employed to improve the performance of natural language processing tasks. In this paper, I address this problem by devising complex networks methods that are able to improve the performance of current statistical methods. Using a fuzzy classification strategy, I show that the topological properties extracted from texts complement the traditional textual description. In several cases, the performance obtained with hybrid approaches outperformed the results obtained when only traditional or networked methods were used. Because the proposed model is generic, the framework devised here could be straightforwardly used to study similar textual applications where the topology plays a pivotal role in the description of the interacting agents.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4552030?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Diego Raphael Amancio A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry. PLoS ONE |
| title | A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry. |
| title_full | A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry. |
| title_fullStr | A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry. |
| title_short | A Complex Network Approach to Stylometry. |
| title_sort | complex network approach to stylometry |
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