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Kanji's & Small-Worlds
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The whole idea was quite simple actually, and born from the language enthousiasm of three programmers. Not an easy language of choice though, as a set of characters named Kanji has approximately 60,000 characters. You only need to learn about 2,000 though to read Japanese, and a serious study also involves writing, but the process of learning Japanese as a Dutch grown up is quite different from Japanese children. As programmers, started looking for patterns in the characters and quickly found that many characters shared components. As language enthousiasts we playfully drew out some networks, connecting two characters if they shared one or more components. But as we found access to electronic dictionary files containing all Kanji and their constituent components we could analyze the language network as a whole. The results were quite surprising, and actually turned out to fit in quite nicely with the exisiting scientific literature of language networks. The network of connected Kanji turned out to be a small-world network, which means it has a high clustering coefficient, a low average path length and a low connection density. As we found out soon enough, computational linguists had already found a large number of small-worlds on phrase level on various levels in different languages, but this network had not yet been found. As such, it neatly lined up with existing research. But small-worlds are also found in brains, social networks, software architecture and power grids. This is remarkable, because wiring up a network randomly almost never leads to small-worlds. So why do all these these networks share these characteristics? Because they are subject to the same forces of formation, we think. But there's more. |
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Clustering Coefficient & Average Path Length
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Section #3
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Section #4
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Section #5
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