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The objective of this work is to observe and analyze the
conceptual-relation structures in texts written in Spanish, from
the perspective of second-order cybernetics. Texts are shaped
by the syntactic structure of the sentences they contain.
Conceptual-relationships emerge by transforming the text, using
a text analysis platform named PAST. The transformation is
guided by a set of established rules, permitting to observe a
system. PAST can be defined as a powerful operator to
transform texts written by the students in a Master’s Program
class. The platform is introduced as a tool enabling a graph
representation of relationships among the concepts in the text.
The internal procedure of the platform and the graph
construction concerns the linguistic analysis. Although the
resulting graphic representation does not follow a formal
definition, it reflects an iterative construction to define a
topology to create a semantic network. This network only
makes sense to the author of the text. In other words, the author
(observer), based on the cybernetics of the observing systems,
uses a tool that enables him to make a second-order observation
of a document that he/she has linearly written. The main
epistemological concepts mentioned throughout the
development of the proposal are discourse and distinction. The
contribution of this work is the application of a methodology
that conducts a recursive observation of both the direct and
indirect relationships established by the words the author puts
together in his/her written discourse. In the discussion of results
the next phases of this work are presented.
