Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the world in specific. Specifically computational studies have profited from the fact that colexification as a scientific con...
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| description | The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the world in specific. Specifically computational studies have profited from the fact that colexification as a scientific construct is easy to operationalize, enabling scholars to infer colexification patterns for large collections of cross-linguistic data. Studies devoted to partial colexifications—colexification patterns that do not involve entire words, but rather various parts of words—, however, have been rarely conducted so far. This is not surprising, since partial colexifications are less easy to deal with in computational approaches and may easily suffer from all kinds of noise resulting from false positive matches. In order to address this problem, this study proposes new approaches to the handling of partial colexifications by (1) proposing new models with which partial colexification patterns can be represented, (2) developing new efficient methods and workflows which help to infer various types of partial colexification patterns from multilingual wordlists, and (3) illustrating how inferred patterns of partial colexifications can be computationally analyzed and interactively visualized. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52888aca781c41b5bd79bbf654ae87be2023-06-16T05:53:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-06-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11565401156540Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlistsJohann-Mattis List0Johann-Mattis List1Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, GermanyChair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics, University of Passau, Passau, GermanyThe past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the world in specific. Specifically computational studies have profited from the fact that colexification as a scientific construct is easy to operationalize, enabling scholars to infer colexification patterns for large collections of cross-linguistic data. Studies devoted to partial colexifications—colexification patterns that do not involve entire words, but rather various parts of words—, however, have been rarely conducted so far. This is not surprising, since partial colexifications are less easy to deal with in computational approaches and may easily suffer from all kinds of noise resulting from false positive matches. In order to address this problem, this study proposes new approaches to the handling of partial colexifications by (1) proposing new models with which partial colexification patterns can be represented, (2) developing new efficient methods and workflows which help to infer various types of partial colexification patterns from multilingual wordlists, and (3) illustrating how inferred patterns of partial colexifications can be computationally analyzed and interactively visualized.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1156540/fullpartial colexificationloose colexificationcolexification networkscomputational comparative linguisticscomputer-assisted language comparison |
| spellingShingle | Johann-Mattis List Johann-Mattis List Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists Frontiers in Psychology partial colexification loose colexification colexification networks computational comparative linguistics computer-assisted language comparison |
| title | Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists |
| title_full | Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists |
| title_fullStr | Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists |
| title_short | Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists |
| title_sort | inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists |
| topic | partial colexification loose colexification colexification networks computational comparative linguistics computer-assisted language comparison |
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