[Lexicog] Digest Number 1050

[Bob Parks]

Greetings:
I'm interested in finding out which words are the most central nodes 
in a dictionary - i.e., the words that are most used in definitions 
(aside from stop words); as well as those that have the largest 
number of synonyms/antonyms, etc.  The analysis in Steyvers and 
Tennenbaum, "The Large-Scale Structure of Semantic Networks" seems to 
indicate there is a "small worlds" network in WordNet, but they don't 
give an actual list of the central node-words. I'm interested in 
doing this sort of an analysis with the Wordsmyth 
Dictionary-Thesaurus. Does anyone have any suggestions for analysis? 
Would Ken Litkowski's "Di-graph" software discover this sort of a 
network?  Any advice/assistance is appreciated.
Bob Parks
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