Today I have been invited to deliver a talk at the Master’s Degree in Languages and Technology In this talk I have briefly introduced several notions of data science, and in particular network science, in connection with linguistics. Among other things we have discussed that many structural patterns are inherent to linguistics, and are common to different languages.
Among these patterns, we can find Zipf’s law, Benford’s law, and unusual frequencies of certain motifs. We have also seen a tool called SocioViz that permits to download and visualize tweets from Twitter.
