Concepticon: A Resource for the Linking of Concept Lists

Johann-Mattis List, Michael Cysouw, Robert Forkel


Abstract
We present an attempt to link the large amount of different concept lists which are used in the linguistic literature, ranging from Swadesh lists in historical linguistics to naming tests in clinical studies and psycholinguistics. This resource, our Concepticon, links 30 222 concept labels from 160 conceptlists to 2495 concept sets. Each concept set is given a unique identifier, a unique label, and a human-readable definition. Concept sets are further structured by defining different relations between the concepts. The resource can be used for various purposes. Serving as a rich reference for new and existing databases in diachronic and synchronic linguistics, it allows researchers a quick access to studies on semantic change, cross-linguistic polysemies, and semantic associations.
Anthology ID:
L16-1379
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
Address:
Portorož, Slovenia
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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Publisher:
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
2393–2400
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/L16-1379
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Cite (ACL):
Johann-Mattis List, Michael Cysouw, and Robert Forkel. 2016. Concepticon: A Resource for the Linking of Concept Lists. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2393–2400, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Cite (Informal):
Concepticon: A Resource for the Linking of Concept Lists (List et al., LREC 2016)
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1379.pdf
Code
 concepticon/pyconcepticon
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Concepticon