Announcing Glottolog/Langdoc, a knowledge base of 175k references for (mostly) underdescribed languages

 archiving, computational linguistics, data provenance, data sharing, genetic classification, project announcements, search/data aggregation, standards, typology  Comments Off
Mar 262012
 

We are happy to announce Glottolog/Langdoc, a comprehensive knowledge base of 104k languoids and 175k references for the Semantic Web.

In linguistics as well as in the Semantic Web world, it is important to clearly identify the concepts one is talking about. Glottolog/Langdoc takes this insight as a starting point and provides 104k Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs) for languoids and 175k for references to descriptive literature focusing on underdescribed languages.

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CL Review of Interest

 computational linguistics, genetic classification, historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology, reviews, typology  No Responses »
Dec 282010
 

The current issue of Computational Linguistics includes a review (by Eric J. M. Smith) of Vladimir Pericliev's book Machine-Aided Linguistic Discovery: An Introduction and Some Examples. The review gives a quick overview of the problems that Pericliev approaches and the techniques he applies.