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CoLex-DB / colex-db

Database of colexifications, with etymological information
https://colex-db.github.io/colex-db/
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colex-db

Database of colexifications, with etymological information

Steps

  1. Fill in NAs in wn_concepticon.tsv (433 of them) to improve mapping between senses in NorthEuraLex and WordNet synsets. (Finish this before moving on to the others.)
  2. Fill in NAs in northeuralex_etymologies.tsv to improve detection of cognate lexemes. (Huge task! Pick a subset of languages. Note, however, that the table only includes etymologies of polysemous words. Also note that it is only necessary to provide the etymology of a word if the etymon also exhibits the same polysemy. If it does not, then remove the row.)
  3. Fill in NAs in northeuralex_definitions.tsv to improve detection of cognate colexifications. (Add rows as necessary, to allow for polysemies of proto-words.)
  4. Check periodically to make sure that exactly the same words appear in northeuralex_etymologies.tsv and in northeuralex_definitions.tsv.

There will soon be a web interface for carrying out the above steps. In the meantime, just use Excel.

Once the web interface is ready, we will think about expanding beyond NorthEuraLex.