The Latent Structure of Dictionaries

How many words (and which ones) are sufficient to define all other words? When dictionaries are analyzed as directed graphs with links from defining words to defined words, they reveal a latent structure. Recursively removing all words that are reachable by definition but that do not define any furt...

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Main Authors: Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe (Author), Blondin Massé, Alexandre (Author), Lopes, Marcos (Author), Lord, Mélanie (Author), Marcotte, Odile (Author), Harnad, Stevan (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016-09.
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