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The Multilayer Networks for Language

We introduce the multilayer networks for language–a unified framework for modeling linguistic subsystems and their structural properties and exploring their mutual interactions [1]. Language can be represented as complex networks: vertices are linguistic units and links their relations. The language multilayer network is defined by three aspects: network construction principle, linguistic subsystem and language of interest. More precisely, we construct a word-level (syntax, shuffled and co-occurrence) and a subword-level (syllables and graphemes) network layers, from five variations of English and Croatian texts. The results show that there are differences in the structures of lang. subsystems, which are hidden during the exploration of an isolated layer. The word-level layers share structural properties regardless of the language, while subword-level expresses language dependent properties.

complex networks, language complex networks, multilayer networks

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