Research Article

A Study on Differences between Simplified and Traditional Chinese Based on Complex Network Analysis of the Word Co-Occurrence Networks

Table 1

Statistics of the built word co-occurrence networks. XIN1, XIN2, and XIN3 are from different parts of the XIN dataset; CNA1, CNA2, and CNA3 are from different parts of the CNA dataset.

Theme (name)Text scales (# of words) (M)Sources# of nodes

Group 1XIN155.9XIN (Jan., 2006–May., 2006)1.06105
CNA155.3CNA (Jan., 2006–Mar., 2006)1.14105
Group 2XIN279.8XIN (Jan., 2006–Jun., 2006)1.26105
CNA279CNA (Jan., 2006–Apr., 2006)1.38105
Group 3XIN3115XIN (Jan., 2006–Sep., 2006)1.52105
CNA3114CNA (Jan., 2006–May., 2006)1.69105