Word network structure in papal documents

Abstract

In word networks, the meaning in documents arise in the structure of the network. Therefore, analyzing the characteristics of the network should hint to the meaning of the document. When a document is shuffled, observing the difference of characteristics between the shuffled and the original text will show the difference in a structured text with a random text. Additionally, important nodes in a network are determined by high-ranking nodes in characteristics like degree or frequency. Tracking these in the dogma, we observe their occurrence in encyclicals, which are based off the dogma. Lastly, we investigate the similarity of important nodes of two related documents.