Formation and Simulation on Chinese Lexical Networks

Abstract

The phrase networks of Chinese show small world, scale-free and disassortative mixing features in our previous paper [10]. Here semantical relationships are considered to explain the small world feature. Then we simulate the formation of Chinese phrases using weighted graph theory. The weighted graph model generates power-law distributions and disassortative mixing as the empirical networks, which effectively explain the origin, formation and evolution of Chinese phrases.