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Concepticon

Concepticon is an open-source online lexical database of linguistic concept lists. It links concept labels in concept lists to concept sets.

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Concepticon
ProducerMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Germany)
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Concepticon is an open-source1 online lexical database of linguistic concept lists (word lists). It links concept labels (i.e., word list glosses) in concept lists (i.e., word lists) to concept sets (i.e., standardized word meanings).23

It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD) project, which is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.4 Version 1.0 was released in 2016.

Concept

Concept lists in the Concepticon include:

See also

See also

References

References

  1. Adding concept lists to Concepticon: A guide for beginners
  2. List, Johann-Mattis and Cysouw, Michael and Forkel, Robert. 2016. Concepticon: A Resource for the Linking of Concept Lists. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Marko Grobelnik and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis (eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2393-2400. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
  3. List, Johann-Mattis (2018). "Exporting Sublists from a Wordlist with LingPy and Concepticon," in Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. https://calc.hypotheses.org/58
  4. Haspelmath, Martin (2014). "Max Planck diversity linguistics redux: Welcome to "Linguistic and Cultural Evolution" in Jena". Hypotheses: Diversity Linguistics Comment (blog). doi:10.58079/nst5. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  • List, Johann Mattis & Rzymski, Christoph & Greenhill, Simon & Schweikhard, Nathanael & Pianykh, Kristina & Tjuka, Annika & Hundt, Carolin & Forkel, Robert (eds.) 2021. CLLD Concepticon 2.5.0 [Data set]. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4911605
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