Henryk Fukś

  1. Inflection system of a language as a complex network.

    Authors: Henryk Fukś
    Subjects: Computation and Language (Computational Linguistics and Natural Language and Speech Processing)
    Abstract

    We investigate inflection structure of a synthetic language using Latin as an
    example. We construct a bipartite graph in which one group of vertices
    correspond to dictionary headwords and the other group to inflected forms
    encountered in a given text. Each inflected form is connected to its
    corresponding headword, which in some cases in non-unique. The resulting sparse
    graph decomposes into a large number of connected components, to be called word
    groups. We then show how the concept of the word group can be used to construct
    coverage curves of selected Latin texts.

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