Websites, pages, and downloadable content which provide resources useful to linguists.
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How many morphological cases does Portuguese have?
In WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures), "Number of Cases" is listed for most languages. However, this information is absent for Portuguese.
Does Portuguese have any morphological case marking? ...
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What is the best way to accurately translate slang?
It may not even be accurate to call it "slang"...
I am working on a filtering system that blocks pornography.
I have a set of key words and phrases in English. Essentially, I would like to have the ...
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Machine-readable list of abbreviations
Is there a list of standard abbreviations/acronyms available for computational linguistics tasks? I understand 'standard' is a subjective term here but anything that is not too domain specific(not a ...
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What is the idea of ngram viewers working case-sensitive? [closed]
On German Language & Usage we recently had a question about the English word schmuck,
which is a false friend of the German word Schmuck.
Out of curiosity I tried the capitalized form vs the non ...
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Are there tools similar Google ngram, which recognise conjugated or declined word forms?
I just found out, that with respect to the German language, where prefixes of verbs are separated from the verb and posed behind the object, I have no chance to find out, if a verb with a prefix is ...
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Are there any databases of geographical language distribution?
I'm wondering whether anyone knows of any machine parsable database of the geographical distribution of natural languages (for example the geographical distribution of (native) speakers)?
I know WALS ...
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Creating a list of linguistic resources
In the interest of cultivating a professional, academic community, I posted this question in the Meta. One comment from @prash was to open a community-wiki type question inviting others to contribute ...
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What are some recommended online dictionaries for linguistic terms?
For one to find out about the definitions of "generative grammar", "sandhi phenomenon", "agglutinative morphology", etc.
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Where can I find a reliable academic source of translations of words to the world's languages?
In this recent question, I was trying to research a list of translation for "no", and a quick google found this page. That website also has other similar pages, like translation of "Hello", "Good ...
