Appraising discrepancies and similarities in semantic networks using concept-centered subnetworks
Medeuov D. Roth C. Puzyreva K. Basov N.
December 2021Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Applied Network Science
2021#6Issue 1
This article proposes an approach to compare semantic networks using concept-centered sub-networks. A concept-centered sub-network is defined as an induced network whose vertex set consists of the given concept (ego) and all its adjacent concepts (alters) and whose link set consists of all the links between the ego and alters (including alter-alter links). By looking at the vertex and link overlap indices of concept-centered networks we infer semantic similarity of the underlying concepts. We cross-evaluate the semantic similarity by close-reading textual contexts from which networks are derived. We illustrate the approach on written and interview texts from an ethnographic study of flood management practice in England.
Computational text analysis , Flood management , Semantic networks
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Centre Marc Bloch, CNRS, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Centre for German and European Studies, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Centre Marc Bloch
Centre for German and European Studies
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