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Authoritative: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0467-x   (Publisher's PDF... likely be available here.)

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Abstract

Almost all language networks in word and syntactic levels are small-world and scale-free. This raises the questions of whether a language network in deeper semantic or cognitive level also has the similar properties. To answer the question, we built up a Chinese semantic network based on a treebank with semantic role (argument structure) annotation and investigated its global statistical properties. The results show that although semantic network is also small-world and scale-free, it is different from syntactic network in hierarchical structure and K-Nearest-Neighbor correlation.

Keywords: semantic network; semantic role; complex network; Chinese; small-world; scale-free

@article{liu09chineseSemanticNetwork,
  author={Haitao Liu},
  title={Statistical Properties of Chinese Semantic Networks},
  journal={Chinese Science Bulletin},
  year={2009},
  volume={54},
  number={16},
  pages={2781-2785},
  doi={10.1007/s11434-009-0467-x},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/liu09chineseSemanticNetwork.html},
  keywords={semantic network;semantic role;complex network;Chinese;small-world;scale-free}
}