Onomatology and content analysis of ergodic literature

Abstract

We first establish a connection between the concept of ergodicity in mathematics and "ergodic literature" of the Choose-your-own-Adventure (CYOA) type that serves to answer some existing objections regarding the use of the term in the latter context. We then consider some steps towards the construction of concept maps for CYOA-type ergodic literature. Our analysis is based on modeling ergodic literature using digraphs and matrices. Promising preliminary results are obtained using content to refine link-based ranking.