From Topic Networks to Distributed Cognitive Maps: Zipfian Topic Universes in the Area of Volunteered Geographic Information

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From sets of corpora of different genres to multiplex topic networks and their randomizations: corpora of different genres are the starting point for spanning LMNs which are then used to derive two-layer multiplex topic networks (). In a second step, randomized counterparts according to Section 3.2.4 are derived from these MTNs to obtain a further basis for evaluating their significance. In this way, we arrive at fourteen candidate scenarios for classifying topic networks.