Investigating global language networks using Google search queries

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Highlights：

• A novel approach to extract and visualize information from Google search engine.

• Proposing translation requests as the dataset to generate multiple GLNs.

• Evaluating languages position in the network with respect to different criteria.

• Generating various statistical hypothesis tests based on represented visuals.

摘要

•A novel approach to extract and visualize information from Google search engine.•Proposing translation requests as the dataset to generate multiple GLNs.•Evaluating languages position in the network with respect to different criteria.•Generating various statistical hypothesis tests based on represented visuals.

论文关键词：Global language network,Google Translate,Machine translation,Data visualization,Lingua franca,Scale-free network

论文评审过程：Received 13 May 2018, Revised 4 November 2018, Accepted 8 December 2018, Available online 10 December 2018, Version of Record 14 December 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.12.016