Discussion Details
| Title: | Database and/or Wiki on Linguistic Evidence? |
| Submitter: | James Myers |
| Description: | There seems to be a rapidly growing interest in expanding the range of
empirical data sources for testing linguistic hypotheses, with books and special issues and conferences in this general area becoming more and more common. For a conference that we recently held ourselves here in Taiwan, I threw together an arbitrary list of references and links: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngproc/IWGElinkse.htm But it seems to me that there should be a more ambitious, well-organized attempt to provide a Web-based portal to this kind of information. This might include a searchable paper archive, perhaps using the Ashing software: http://software.auf.net/ashing/ ... and/or a wiki, with advice on experimental design and statistics, links to corpora and software, and suchlike stuff. I was thinking about starting such a resource myself, but I'm not sure our server could handle the traffic, and anyway this kind of thing requires an active community (not to mention people who actually know how to write and maintain server-side software). The main difficulty with such a project would be drawing the line between ''empirical'' linguistics and ''ordinary'' linguistics, since of course no sharp line exists. But that's what discussions are for. |
| Date Posted: | 07-May-2007 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
General Linguistics
Discipline of Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 18.1380 |
| Posted: | 07-May-2007 |
