A new insight into linguistic pattern analysis based on multilayer hypergraphs for the automatic extraction of text summaries

Abstract

Forensic linguistics and stylometry have in the exploration of linguistic patternsone of their fundamental tools. Mathematical structures such as complex multi-layer networks and hypergraphs provide remarkable resources to represent andanalyzetexts.Inthispaper,wepresentamodelthatincludessomespecificmeso-scopic relations between the different types of words in a corpus (lexical words,verbs, linking words, other words) according to the sentences or paragraphs inwhich they appear. This model is supported by various mathematical structuressuch as partial multiline graphs, multilayer hypergraphs, and their derivativegraphs. The methodology proposed from this new point of view is of singularhelp to find meaningful sentencesfrom any text to set up an automatic summaryof the text and, eventually, to determine its linguistic level.