LINGUIST List 25.2714
Thu
Jun 26 2014
FYI: CLICS Online
Database of Colexifications
Editor for this issue:
Uliana Kazagasheva <ulianalinguistlist.org>
Date: 26-Jun-2014
From: Thomas Mayer
<thomas.mayer
uni-marburg.de>
Subject: CLICS Online Database
of Colexifications
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Date: 26-Jun-2014
From: Thomas Mayer
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Subject: CLICS Online Database
of Colexifications
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We are proud to announce the release of CLICS
(http://clics.lingpy.org),
an online database of synchronic lexical
associations (colexifications) in 221 language
varieties of the world (Version 1.0). We use
the term colexification to refer to the
situation when two or more concepts are
expressed in a language by the same lexical
item (e.g., Russian 'рука' colexifies the
concepts ''hand'' and ''arm''), covering cases
of polysemy, homonymy or semantic vagueness.
CLICS provides an overview of such conceptual
links (tendencies of meaning associations)
across a large number of languages by listing
all languages exhibiting a given colexification
together with their genealogical and areal
information. CLICS is designed to serve as a
data source for work in lexical typology,
diachronic semantics, and research in cognitive
science.
The database can be accessed in two ways.
First, users can query in which languages two
given concepts are colexified (http://clics.lingpy.org/direct.php)
or what other concepts are linked to a given
concept (http://clics.lingpy.org/all.php).
Second, users can browse through the concept
communities that we extracted from the overall
network of colexifications (http://clics.lingpy.org/browse.php).
The communities are represented as
force-directed graph visualizations featuring a
number of interactive components that allow for
the detection of areal and genealogical
patterns in the database (see the example of
''hand'' and ''arm'' under
http://clics.lingpy.org/browse.php?gloss=hand).
Johann-Mattis List, Thomas Mayer, Anselm
Terhalle, Matthias Urban
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Historical
Linguistics; Lexicography; Typology
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