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Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists

The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the world in specific. Specifically computational studies have profited from the fact that colexification as a scientific con...

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Autor principal: List, Johann-Mattis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10312387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37397315
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1156540
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description The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the world in specific. Specifically computational studies have profited from the fact that colexification as a scientific construct is easy to operationalize, enabling scholars to infer colexification patterns for large collections of cross-linguistic data. Studies devoted to partial colexifications—colexification patterns that do not involve entire words, but rather various parts of words—, however, have been rarely conducted so far. This is not surprising, since partial colexifications are less easy to deal with in computational approaches and may easily suffer from all kinds of noise resulting from false positive matches. In order to address this problem, this study proposes new approaches to the handling of partial colexifications by (1) proposing new models with which partial colexification patterns can be represented, (2) developing new efficient methods and workflows which help to infer various types of partial colexification patterns from multilingual wordlists, and (3) illustrating how inferred patterns of partial colexifications can be computationally analyzed and interactively visualized.
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spelling pubmed-103123872023-07-01 Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists List, Johann-Mattis Front Psychol Psychology The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the world in specific. Specifically computational studies have profited from the fact that colexification as a scientific construct is easy to operationalize, enabling scholars to infer colexification patterns for large collections of cross-linguistic data. Studies devoted to partial colexifications—colexification patterns that do not involve entire words, but rather various parts of words—, however, have been rarely conducted so far. This is not surprising, since partial colexifications are less easy to deal with in computational approaches and may easily suffer from all kinds of noise resulting from false positive matches. In order to address this problem, this study proposes new approaches to the handling of partial colexifications by (1) proposing new models with which partial colexification patterns can be represented, (2) developing new efficient methods and workflows which help to infer various types of partial colexification patterns from multilingual wordlists, and (3) illustrating how inferred patterns of partial colexifications can be computationally analyzed and interactively visualized. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10312387/ /pubmed/37397315 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1156540 Text en Copyright © 2023 List. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
title Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
title_full Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
title_fullStr Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
title_full_unstemmed Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
title_short Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
title_sort inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10312387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37397315
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1156540
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