LINGUIST List 33.349
Fri Jan 28 2022
Software: Pygmalion, a Tool for Diachronic Interactive Visualisations (lexical maps)
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Jan-2022
From: Francesca Dell'Oro <francesca.delloro
unine.ch>
Subject: Pygmalion, a Tool for Diachronic Interactive Visualisations (lexical maps)
E-mail this message to a friend Pygmalion is a tool developed to easily draw interactive visualisations of meanings, functions, concepts, etc. in their diachronic evolution. A short description of the tool and instructions on how to use it can be found here:
https://woposs.unine.ch/pygmalion.php Pygmalion
is available in three versions.
Pygmalion-simple 1.0,
the basic version of the tool:
https://woposs.unine.ch/pygmalion.php Pygmalion-colour 1.0
which enables to add colour-coded analytical categories defined by the user:
https://woposs.unine.ch/pygmalion-colour.php Pygmalion-modal 1.0
which is specifically designed for drawing diachronic maps of modal markers or concepts:
https://woposs.unine.ch/pygmalion-modal.php Pygmalion is a flexible and multifunctional tool we developed in the framework of the SNSF-funded project a World of Possibilities (WoPoss). Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language (
https://woposs.unine.ch).
In our showcase you will find some examples of application of the tool to modal markers (
https://woposs.unine.ch/diachronic-visualisations.php#maps) and beyond:
https://woposs.unine.ch/pygmalion.php#gallery We invite you to try it out and send us your Pygmalion maps and/or your feedback at francesca.delloro [at] unine.ch
The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
Ling & Literature
Semantics
Typology
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