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From Topic Networks to Distributed Cognitive Maps: Zipfian Topic Universes in the Area of Volunteered Geographic Information ...
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Are nearby places (e.g. cities) described by related words? In this article we transfer this research question in the field of lexical encoding of geographic information onto the level of intertextuality. To this end, we explore Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to model texts addressing places at the level of cities or regions with the help of so-called topic networks. This is done to examine how language encodes and networks geographic information on the aboutness level of texts. Our hypothesis is that the networked thematizations of places are similar - regardless of their distances and the underlying communities of authors. To investigate this we introduce Multiplex Topic Networks (MTN), which we automatically derive from Linguistic Multilayer Networks (LMN) as a novel model, especially of thematic networking in text corpora. Our study shows a Zipfian organization of the thematic universe in which geographical places (especially cities) are located in online communication. We interpret this ... : 65 pages, 27 figures ...
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Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences
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URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01454 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2002.01454
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VienNA : auf dem Weg zu einer Infrastruktur für die verteilte interaktive evolutionäre Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache
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In: Digitale Infrastrukturen für die germanistische Forschung. - Berlin : De Gruyter 6 (2018), 149-176
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UB Frankfurt Linguistik
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