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Re:What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define a... by oh_sigh on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:52PM (#19332262)
It seems like a good start. Once you do that, you could start finding vertices with large amounts of incoming edges, attempt to redefine the word as a phrase composed of only words still in the graph, remove that vertex, and repeat.
Re:What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define a... by clhodapp on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:58PM (#19332347)
That will get you much closer but it does ignore the ability to apply creativity to definitions to further reduce them. In the end, a machine-driven technique can give an approximate answer to this problem but it will never be the "perfect" answer.