Loops and Self-Reference in the Construction of Dictionaries
Dictionaries link a given word to a set of alternative words (the definition) which in turn point to further descendants. Iterating through definitions in this way, one typically finds that definitions loop back upon themselves. We demonstrate that such definitional loops are created in order to int...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2012-09-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031018 |