  This manuscript provides a short and practical introduction to the topic of
language networks. This text aims at assisting researchers with no practical
experience in text and/or network analysis. We provide a practical tutorial on
how to model and characterize texts using network-based features. In this
tutorial, we also include examples of pre-processing and network
representations. A brief description of the main tasks allying network science
and text analysis is also provided. A further development of this text shall
include a practical description of network classification via machine learning
methods.
