Structural invariants and semantic fingerprints in the “ego network” of words

ABSTRACT: Well-established cognitive models coming from anthropology have shown that, due to the cognitive constraints that limit our “bandwidth” for social interactions, humans organize their social relations according to a regular structure. In this work, we postulate that similar regularities can be found in other cognitive processes, such as those involving language production. In order to investigate this claim, we analyse a dataset containing tweets of a heterogeneous group of Twitter users (regular users and professional writers). Leveraging a methodology similar to the one used to uncover the well-established social cognitive constraints, we find regularities at both the structural and semantic levels. In the former, we find that a concentric layered structure (which we call ego network of w

SUBMITTER: Ollivier K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9681103 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature