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Graph theory, as a branch of mathematics, is characterized by the simplicity of its elementary object, the graph, and its extraordinary amount of applications. A graph consists of vertices and edges. Vertices are arbitrary objects, and edges are binary relations between vertices. This definition may sound like a simplification, but it is not. It is the real thing.
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Haralambous, Y. (2024). Graphs. In: A Course in Natural Language Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27226-4_8
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