A Graph-based Analysis of the Corpus of Word Association Norms for Mexican Spanish

Victor Mijangos, Julia B. Barrón-Martínez, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Gemma Bel-Enguix

2017

Abstract

The paper focuses on the study of a graph built on a Corpus of Word Association Norms for Mexican Spanish. We investigate the main features of the graph and the structure of the areas with the strongest connections. An important goal of this work is the analysis of lexical relations between the most representaive nodes in order to understand the psychological mechanisms underlying word associations.

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Mijangos V., Barrón-Martínez J., Arias-Trejo N. and Bel-Enguix G. (2017). A Graph-based Analysis of the Corpus of Word Association Norms for Mexican Spanish . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - Volume 1: COMPLEXIS, ISBN 978-989-758-244-8, pages 87-93. DOI: 10.5220/0006306400870093


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@conference{complexis17,
author={Victor Mijangos and Julia B. Barrón-Martínez and Natalia Arias-Trejo and Gemma Bel-Enguix},
title={A Graph-based Analysis of the Corpus of Word Association Norms for Mexican Spanish},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - Volume 1: COMPLEXIS,},
year={2017},
pages={87-93},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006306400870093},
isbn={978-989-758-244-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk - Volume 1: COMPLEXIS,
TI - A Graph-based Analysis of the Corpus of Word Association Norms for Mexican Spanish
SN - 978-989-758-244-8
AU - Mijangos V.
AU - Barrón-Martínez J.
AU - Arias-Trejo N.
AU - Bel-Enguix G.
PY - 2017
SP - 87
EP - 93
DO - 10.5220/0006306400870093