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Concept-Centered Comparison of Semantic Networks

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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.

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    That is, the concept tends to co-occur with different other concepts in professional and local texts.

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    Which is always smaller than that of professionals, mostly due to different corpus sizes.

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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).

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  1. Centre for German and European Studies, St. Petersburg University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    Darkhan Medeuov, Ksenia Puzyreva & Nikita Basov

  2. Centre Marc Bloch, Humbold Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Camille Roth

  3. Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

    Darkhan Medeuov

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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

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