Table 1 Comparison of models representing two or more of the main attributes in temporal text networks

Contact sequence

DMG

A

—

Mostly edges

(Holme and Saramäki 2012; Gauvin et al. 2013)

Time-slice

OML

A

—

Layers

(Mucha et al. 2010)

Longitudinal

OML

A

—

Layers

(Snijders 2005; 2014)

Memory

DG

A ⁿ

—

Edges (implicit)

(Scholtes et al. 2014; Rosvall et al. 2014; Lambiotte et al. 2015; Peixoto and Rosvall 2017)

Memory (multilayer)

DML

A¹∪⋯∪Aⁿ

—

Edges (implicit)

(Scholtes 2011)

Temporal text

—

X

Document

Vertices

(Brucato and Montesi 2014)

Longitudinal text

—

X

Document

Layers

(O’Connor et al. 2010; Dodds and Danforth 2010)

Language networks

G/DG

X

Word

—

(Sole et al. (2010))

Document networks

G/DG

X

Document

—

(Chang and Blei 2009; Menczer 2004)

Document-phrase graph

BG

X∪X

Document, phrase

—

(Ren et al. 2017)

HIN

BG

A∪X

BoW, concept, doc.

—

(Chang et al. 2009; Wang et al. 2017; Kralj et al. 2016)

Socio-semantic network

BG

A∪X

Concept

—

(Roth 2017; Hellsten and Leydesdorff)

Temp. Socio-semantic network

BG

A∪X

Concept

Edges

(Roth and Cointet 2010)

Citation network

DG

X

Document

Vertices

(Institute for Scientific Information et al. 1964; Batagelj)

Author-citation network

DG

2^A×X

Document

Vertices

(White and Griffith 1981)

Spreading process

DG

A×X

—

Edge (delay)

(Leskovec et al. 2007)

Polyadic conversations

DG

A×2^A×X

Document

Vertices

(Magnani et al. 2012)

Core temporal text network

DBG

A∪X

Document

Edges

Ext. temporal text network

ML

A∪X

Document

Edges