Word trajectories

Abstract

How much people's thought processes are similar to each other? Modeling the thought processes is one of the questions that still preserves the mystery of the world. Thought process cannot be directly observed. But it is possible to measure indirectly with its products such as speaking, writing. In this study, word paths of several texts were constructed. For this purpose, firstly, the semantic coordinates of the words are calculated by using cooccurance matrix. Then the word trajectories are constructed by combining word coordinates according to the order of words in texts. The trajectories were represented with the histograms of the distances and angles between successsive words. So, the text are represented with only the shapes of the trajectories not its contents. According to the our experiments, authors of the texts can be discriminated by the frequency of the distance and angles between the words.