@Article{CiCP-8-3,
author = {},
title = {Comparisons of the English and Chinese Language Networks: Many Similarities and Few Differences},
journal = {Communications in Computational Physics},
year = {2010},
volume = {8},
number = {3},
pages = {690--700},
abstract = {<p style="text-align: justify;">With words as nodes, and a link exits between two neighboring words, the
weighted directed English and Chinese written human language networks are constructed
from one English novel and two Chinese ones. We hereby analyze in detail
the topological structure of them, in order to clarify their similar and different statistical
properties. The empirical results show that the English and Chinese language
networks all possess the shifted power law (SPL) degree distribution, the small-world
property and the hierarchical structure, the connections among the words have positive
assortativity coefficient and reciprocal characteristics. We also investigate the features
of the strength and the centrality, which describe the importance of a specific
word. Furthermore, considering the growth properties of the language networks and
part of topological property, we find that the English written human language network
grows slower than the Chinese one, which implies different mechanisms of the English
and Chinese languages.</p>},
issn = {1991-7120},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.190909.161209a},
url = {https://global-sci.com/article/81048/comparisons-of-the-english-and-chinese-language-networks-many-similarities-and-few-differences}
}