Co-occurrence network analysis of modern Chinese poems

Authors：Liang W^*; Wang Y; Shi Y; Chen G

Source：Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications , 2015, 420: 284-293.

DOI：10.1016/j.physa.2014.11.001

• Chinese language
• Co-occurrence network
• Hierarchical structure
• Poem
• Spectral analysis

A total of 606 co-occurrence networks of Chinese characters and words are constructed from rhymes, free verses, and prose poems. It is found that 98.5 of networks have scale-free properties, while 19.8 of networks do not have small-world features, especially the clustering coefficients in 5.6 of networks are zero. In addition, 61.4 of networks have significant hierarchical structures, and 98 of networks are disassortative. For the above observed phenomena, analysis is provided with interpretation from a linguistic perspective.

• Institution
  Henan Polytechnic University