Prox is a stochatic method designed to study the structure of real-world graphs (i.e. large-scale graphs that model real data).

Particles wander randomly over the studied graph from vertex to vertex by following its edges. The structural properties of the graph are highlighted by the dynamics of the paths borrowed by the particles.

When the graph is built from linguistic material (corpora and dictionaries), Prox helps define a lexical metrology (distance, classification, cartography, browsing).

The Prox method comes with an online visualization interface.

Bruno Gaume
Contact :

Yannick Chudy

• http://autourdumot.fr/

• B. Gaume, K. Duvignau, M. Vanhove (2008). Semantic associations and confluences in paradigmatic networks. In M. Vanhove, Ed., From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 233-264.
• B. Gaume (2004). Balades Aléatoires dans les Petits Mondes Lexicaux. In I3: Information Interaction Intelligence, vol. 4, n°2, CEPADUES édition.