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Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.
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- Borin, Lars, 1957, et al.
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A bird’s-eye view on South Asian languages through LSI: Areal or genetic relationships?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2196-0771 .- 2196-078X. ; 7:2, s. 151-185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present initial exploratory work on illuminating the long-standing question of areal versus genealogical connections in South Asia using computational data visualization tools. With respect to genealogy, we focus on the subclassification of Indo-Aryan, the most ubiquitous language family of South Asia. The intent here is methodological: we explore computational methods for visualizing large datasets of linguistic features, in our case 63 features from 200 languages representing four language families of South Asia, coming out of a digitized version of Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India. To this dataset we apply phylogenetic software originally developed in the context of computational biology for clustering the languages and displaying the clusters in the form of networks. We further explore multiple correspondence analysis as a way of illustrating how linguistic feature bundles correlate with extrinsically defined groupings of languages (genealogical and geographical). Finally, map visualization of combinations of linguistic features and language genealogy is suggested as an aid in distinguishing genealogical and areal features. On the whole, our results are in line with the conclusions of earlier studies: Areality and genealogy are strongly intertwined in South Asia, the traditional lower-level subclassification of Indo-Aryan is largely upheld, and there is a clearly discernible areal east–west divide cutting across language families.
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- Borin, Lars, 1957, et al.
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Grammar, incorporated
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Ingår i: Henrichsen, P. J. (ed). CALL for the Nordic languages. - Frederiksberg : Samfundslitteratur. - 8759311762 ; , s. 125-145
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- Borin, Lars, 1957, et al.
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Language technology for digital linguistics: Turning the Linguistic Survey of India into a rich source of linguistic information
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 18th International Conference, CICLing 2017, Budapest, Hungary, April 17–23, 2017. - Cham : Springer. - 0302-9743 .- 1611-3349. ; , s. 550-563
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present our work aiming at turning the linguistic material available in Grierson’s classical Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) from a printed discursive textual description into a formally structured digital language resource, a database suitable for a broad array of linguistic investigations of the languages of South Asia. While doing so, we develop state-of-the-art language technology for automatically extracting the relevant grammatical information from the text of the LSI, and interactive linguistic information visualization tools for better analysis and comparisons of languages based on their structural and functional features.
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- Borin, Lars, et al.
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Linguistic landscaping of South Asia using digital language resources : Genetic vs. areal linguistics
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Ingår i: Proceedings of LREC 2014. - Reykjavik : ELRA. - 9782951740884 ; , s. 3137-3144
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Like many other research fields, linguistics is entering the age of big data. We are now at a point where it is possible to see how new research questions can be formulated and old research questions addressed from a new angle or established results verified on the basis of exhaustive collections of data, rather than small, carefully selected samples. For example, South Asia is often mentioned in the literature as a classic example of a linguistic area, but there is no systematic, empirical study substantiating this claim. Examination of genealogical and areal relationships among South Asian languages requires a large-scale quantitative and qualitative comparative study, encompassing more than one language family. Further, such a study cannot be conducted manually, but needs to draw on extensive digitized language resources and state-of-the-art computational tools. We present some preliminary results of our large-scale investigation of the genealogical and areal relationships among the languages of this region, based on the linguistic descriptions available in the 19 tomes of Grierson's monumental Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1927), which is currently being digitized with the aim of turning the linguistic information in the LSI into a digital language resource suitable for a broad array of linguistic investigations.
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- Borin, Lars, 1957, et al.
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Many a little makes a mickle - infrastructure component reuse for a massively multilingual linguistic study
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Ingår i: Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2017, Budapest, 18–20 September 2017. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 1650-3686 .- 1650-3740. - 9789176852736
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present ongoing work aiming at turning the linguistic material available in Grierson’s classical Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) into a digital language resource, a database suitable for a broad array of linguistic investigations of the languages of South Asia and studies relating to language typology and contact linguistics. The project has two concrete main aims: (1) to conduct a linguistic investigation of the claim that South Asia constitutes a linguistic area; (2) to develop state-of-the-art language technology for automatically extracting the relevant information from the text of the LSI. In this presentation we focus on how, in the first part of the project, a number of existing research infrastructure components provided by Swe-Clarin, the Swedish CLARIN consortium, have been ‘recycled’ in order to allow the linguists involved in the project to quickly orient themselves in the vast LSI material, and to be able to provide input to the language technologists designing the tools for information extraction from the descriptive grammars.
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- Borin, Lars, 1957, et al.
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Swedish FrameNet++ and comparative linguistics
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Swedish FrameNet+. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 9789027209900 - 9789027258489 ; , s. 139-166
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter we describe a multilingual extension of Swedish FrameNet++, intended to address research questions of a broad comparative nature, in genealogical, areal and typological linguistics, focusing on the integration into Swedish FrameNet++ of so-called core vocabularies, used in several linguistic subfields in order to conduct massive comparative studies involving large numbers of languages. Specifically, we describe the inclusion of two such lexical databases covering several hundred South Asian languages, with the aim of investigating areal and genealogical connections among these languages.
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