The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies

Christoph Rzymski; Tiago Tresoldi; Simon J. Greenhill; Mei Shin Wu; Nathanael E. Schweikhard; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; Volker Gast; Timotheus A. Bodt; Abbie Hantgan; Gereon A. Kaiping; Sophie Chang; Yunfan Lai; Natalia Morozova; Heini Arjava; Nataliia Hübler; Ezequiel Koile; Steve Pepper; Mariann Proos; Briana Van Epps; Ingrid Blanco; Carolin Hundt; Sergei Monakhov; Kristina Pianykh; Sallona Ramesh; Russell D. Gray; Robert Forkel; Johann Mattis List

doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0341-x

The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies

Christoph Rzymski^*, Tiago Tresoldi, Simon J. Greenhill, Mei Shin Wu, Nathanael E. Schweikhard, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Volker Gast, Timotheus A. Bodt, Abbie Hantgan, Gereon A. Kaiping, Sophie Chang, Yunfan Lai, Natalia Morozova, Heini Arjava, Nataliia Hübler, Ezequiel Koile, Steve Pepper, Mariann Proos, Briana Van Epps, Ingrid BlancoCarolin Hundt, Sergei Monakhov, Kristina Pianykh, Sallona Ramesh, Russell D. Gray, Robert Forkel, Johann Mattis List

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Advances in computer-assisted linguistic research have been greatly influential in reshaping linguistic research. With the increasing availability of interconnected datasets created and curated by researchers, more and more interwoven questions can now be investigated. Such advances, however, are bringing high requirements in terms of rigorousness for preparing and curating datasets. Here we present CLICS, a Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (CLICS). CLICS tackles interconnected interdisciplinary research questions about the colexification of words across semantic categories in the world’s languages, and show-cases best practices for preparing data for cross-linguistic research. This is done by addressing shortcomings of an earlier version of the database, CLICS2, and by supplying an updated version with CLICS3, which massively increases the size and scope of the project. We provide tools and guidelines for this purpose and discuss insights resulting from organizing student tasks for database updates.

Original language	English
Article number	13
Journal	Scientific data
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0341-x
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2020

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Rzymski, C., Tresoldi, T., Greenhill, S. J., Wu, M. S., Schweikhard, N. E., Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M., Gast, V., Bodt, T. A., Hantgan, A., Kaiping, G. A., Chang, S., Lai, Y., Morozova, N., Arjava, H., Hübler, N., Koile, E., Pepper, S., Proos, M., Van Epps, B., ... List, J. M. (2020). The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies. Scientific data, 7(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0341-x

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