Cross-linguistic data formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

Robert Forkel; Johann Mattis List; Simon J. Greenhill; Christoph Rzymski; Sebastian Bank; Michael Cysouw; Harald Hammarström; Martin Haspelmath; Gereon A. Kaiping; Russell D. Gray

doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.205

Cross-linguistic data formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

Robert Forkel^*, Johann Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarström, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, Russell D. Gray

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Abstract

The amount of available digital data for the languages of the world is constantly increasing. Unfortunately, most of the digital data are provided in a large variety of formats and therefore not amenable for comparison and re-use. The Cross-Linguistic Data Formats initiative proposes new standards for two basic types of data in historical and typological language comparison (word lists, structural datasets) and a framework to incorporate more data types (e.g. parallel texts, and dictionaries). The new specification for cross-linguistic data formats comes along with a software package for validation and manipulation, a basic ontology which links to more general frameworks, and usage examples of best practices.

Original language	English
Article number	180205
Journal	Scientific data
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.205
Publication status	Published - 2018

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