Abstract
This article proposes an approach to compare semantic networks using concept-centered sub-networks. We illustrate the approach on written and interview texts from an ethnographic study of flood management practice in England.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
That is, the concept tends to co-occur with different other concepts in professional and local texts.
- 2.
Which is always smaller than that of professionals, mostly due to different corpus sizes.
References
Abbott, J.T., Austerweil, J.L., Griffiths, T.L.: Random walks on semantic networks can resemble optimal foraging. Psychol. Rev. 122(3), 558–569 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038693
Basov, N., De Nooy, W., Nenko, A.: Local meaning structures: mixed method sociosemantic network analysis. Am. J. Cult. Sociol. 1–42 (2019)
Cantwell, G.T., Liu, Y., Maier, B.F., Schwarze, A.C., Serván, C.A., Snyder, J., St-Onge, G.: Thresholding normally distributed data creates complex networks. Phys. Rev. E 101(6), 062302 (2020)
Carley, K.: An approach for relating social structure to cognitive structure. J. Math. Sociol. 12(2), 137–189 (1986)
Carley, K., Newell, A.: The nature of the social agent. J. Math. Sociol. 19(4), 221–262 (1994)
Choobdar, S., Ribeiro, P., Bugla, S., Silva, F.: Comparison of coauthorship networks across scientific fields using motifs. In: 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, pp. 147–152. IEEE (2012)
Dianati, N.: Unwinding the hairball graph: pruning algorithms for weighted complex networks. Phys. Rev. E 93(1), 012304 (2016)
Fruchterman, T.M., Reingold, E.M.: Graph drawing by force-directed placement. Softw.: Pract. Exp. 21(11), 1129–1164 (1991)
Lee, M., Marin, J.L.: Coding, counting and cultural cartography. Am. J. Cult. Sociol. 3, 1–33 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/ajcs.2014.13
McEwen, L., Jones, O.: Building local/lay flood knowledges into community flood resilience planning after the July 2007 floods, gloucestershire, UK. Hydrol. Res. 43(5), 675–688 (2012)
Milo, R., Shen-Orr, S., Itzkovitz, S., Kashtan, N., Chklovskii, D., Alon, U.: Network motifs: simple building blocks of complex networks. Science 298(5594), 824–827 (2002)
Nye, M., Tapsell, S., Twigger-Ross, C.: New social directions in UK flood risk management: moving towards flood risk citizenship? J. Flood Risk Manage. 4(4), 288–297 (2011)
Pržulj, N.: Biological network comparison using graphlet degree distribution. Bioinformatics 23(2), e177–e183 (2007)
Radicchi, F., Ramasco, J.J., Fortunato, S.: Information filtering in complex weighted networks. Phys. Rev. E 83, 046101 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.046101
Roth, C., Cointet, J.-P.: Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks. Soc. Netw. 32(1), 16–29 (2010)
Serrano, M. À., Boguñá, M., Vespignani, A.: Extracting the multiscale backbone of complex weighted networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 106(16), 6483–6488 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0808904106. eprint: https://www.pnas.org/content/106/16/6483.full.pdf
Wehn, U., Rusca, M., Evers, J., Lanfranchi, V.: Participation in flood risk management and the potential of citizen observatories: a governance analysis. Environ. Sci. Pol. 48, 225–236 (2015)
Wijffels, J.: Udpipe: Tokenization, parts of speech tagging, lemmatization and dependency parsing with the ‘udpipe’ ‘nlp’ toolkit. R package version 0.8.3 (2019). https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=udpipe
Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant 19-18-00394, ‘Creation of knowledge on ecological hazards in Russian and European local communities,’ 2019—ongoing).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Medeuov, D., Roth, C., Puzyreva, K., Basov, N. (2021). Concept-Centered Comparison of Semantic Networks. In: Benito, R.M., Cherifi, C., Cherifi, H., Moro, E., Rocha, L.M., Sales-Pardo, M. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications IX. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 2020. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 943. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65347-7_28
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65347-7_28
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-65346-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-65347-7
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)