ON THE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ON SELF-ORGANIZING LEXICAL NETWORKS

This paper presents a simulation model of self-organizing lexical networks. Its starting point is the notion of an association game in which the impact of varying community models is studied on the emergence of lexical networks. The paper reports on experiments whose results are in accordance with findings in the framework of the naming game. This is done by means of a multilevel network model in which the correlation of social and of linguistic networks is studied.

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