Questions tagged [resource-request]
For requests of linguistic resources (like corpora, training data, wordnets, ontologies). When looking for published references, use the tag [tag:reference-request] instead.
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Need online resources to compare the pronunciation in Latin, Old French and Old English
I'm looking for resources giving old French pronunciation, for instance as IPA.
I know that the pronunciation of old French is quite regular, but I cannot find a dictionary with pronunciations.
I ...
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Is there an API that converts a word into an IPA Transcriptions?
We want to automatically generate the IPA Transcription for a person's name when we create a record for them in our application. Does anyone know of an API service that can do this?
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Nouns used as verbs.What is this process called?
I am milking the cow
He is watering the garden
In English many nouns can be used as verbs.some languages I know , for example, Hindi, does not have this facility.
What is the process of nouns ...
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Which option should I use if I want to learn theories that will account for as much English sentence's structure as possible
Option 1: "Cambridge English Grammar Language" by Geoffrey Pullum
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Option 2: a site which, i think, is based on government and binding theory: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook/
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Do there exist any Phoenician or Etruscan dictionaries online?
I am trying to find a word list for Phoenician but this is all I've found online (a short list, who knows how accurate it is). The only books (without previews unfortunately) I could find were these:
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big english word frequency list [duplicate]
I'm in need of English 100,000 frequency word list.
I hope you tell me about a free option (if available) or an inexpensive one.
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What are the recommended sources for research about conceptual metaphor?
I would like to find what have been done in research about conceptual metaphor. I've looked into some database, e.g. ERIC, Sciencedirect, WileyOnlineLibrary, JSTOR, Cambridgecore, Taylor&Francis, ...
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What is a good etymological dictionary for the Persian language?
There are dozens of etymological dictionaries for Persian, has somebody compared them, and if yes could you recommend me a good one?
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Data set for reasoning?
I am looking data set for reasoning. Basically, more examples like this one:
1. I like food.
2. Cake is food.
Conclusion: I like cake.
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English phonemes audio database
I need an audio file database with any audio format which will contain the 44 English phonemes spoken by different speakers.
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minimal pairs for Portuguese
Does anyone know of a list of minimal pairs for pronunciation, preferably with audio files?
So far the best I have found https://european-portuguese.info/minimalpairs but this is specific to European. ...
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good references for old indo-European languages
what enjoy the most is to trace back the words right to their origin.
i had little study on Mazandarani(tabari\tapuri) dialect spoken is Mazandaran province of Iran. traced back some words to their ...
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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) words with IPA
Are there any resources that can show IPA pronounciation for each PIE word? Either with laryngeals or without laryngeals?
Wikitionary gives me only small list Category:Proto-Indo-European terms with ...
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Is there an english news corpus available to download for between 1900 and 201X (free or low cost)
I'm attempting a word embedding analysis (think underlying meaning and implications, but computational) of certain keywords through time in the English language, but I am having some difficulty ...
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Chinese linguistics: Could anyone give me pointers to the Traditional-Simplified Chinese translated corpora?
I am a computational linguist and I need some datasets to evaluate my Simplified to Traditional Chinese converter.
Could anyone point to datasets which have pairs of Simplified-Traditional Chinese ...
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Extensive English word corpora
I am looking for an extensive list of english words[including American and British... just an exhaustive list]. This list of english words should contain an exhaustive collection of all forms of all ...
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Is there any language where stress can be comprised of diminished expiratory force?
I can swear I read an online article that gave a resouding yes to that question but I've lost it and my memory is uhm, not the best so I'd like a confirmation.
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PoS tagger - technical corpus
I try to find corpus with technical language to train my model, but I cannot find it.
Do you know if there are any tagged PoS corpus in English related with technical language?
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Get Prolog (other functional programming language) rules/facts from LKB or similar system
My goal is to take simple sentence such as Grass is green and convert it to Prolog rule/fact. It does not have to be Prolog, but any other functional programming language with which I can perform ...
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Maltese Swadesh list with IPA
Do anyone know where to find the full Maltese Swadesh list with the phonetic transcription (IPA) ?. I found such list in Wikipedia but without IPA transcription
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Any resources for examples of interlinear gloss for Classical Arabic/MSA?
I tried googling and asking on reddit but I got nothing.
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Speech conversation dataset (Recorded over microphone)
I need a publically available one-to-one speech conversation dataset recorded over the microphone, e.g., interview scenario or enquiry or call centre call answering.
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I need a list of common minimal pairs in Thai
I'm looking for a list of minimal pairs in Thai where the only difference is an accent mark/diacritic. One example would be
ห่าง (far) =/= ห้าง (store)
Is there someplace to find this? My Thai ...
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Textbook suggestions for French phonology
I need to write a paper on French phonology for my Phonology class so I was wondering if you could give me some advice on where to start? I'm mainly looking for textbooks either in English or in ...
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Online collection of the world languages' melodic patterns?
Every language has some very typical melodic patterns and I've been wondering is there some sort of a global repository collecting and comparing such patterns?
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Where can I find an analysis of the semantic overlap of English “to have” and “with”?
For years I've understood via my native speaker intuition and my interest in languages and linguistics that the preposition "with" can carry the semantic meaning of the verb "to have".
The man who ...
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Good audio resources for the ejective consonants
I think I understand the ejective consonants, but even after listening to the Wikipedia audio clips, I am not sure I would be able to distinguish them from the corresponding "regular" consonant, like ...
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Software for finding syllogisms in treebank data?
Is there treebank search software that can locate a syllogism, identifying its major and minor premises and terms?
cf. Eyal Mozes, “A Deductive Database Based on Aristotelian Logic,” Journal of ...
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Accurately representing stress
Wondering how to accurately represent stress. In IPA, stress, is marked with ˈ◌. But in languages like Spanish (don't know of other languages that use acute accent, other than Ancient Greek), you have ...
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Techniques for translating a text [closed]
After looking through a few translations of texts, I started wondering how people go about actually doing the translation. For example, translating between Chinese and English. They have very ...
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Looking for Spanish email or chat corpora
I am looking for some corpora containing emails or chats in Spanish.
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Transcripts for Languages with Few Resources (Such as Native American Languages)
Wondering if there exist any direct Native American or other Indigenous people's transcript of a story or a complete something in their language. By indigenous I mean those living in the Amazon, New ...
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Audio library for all IPA vowels and consonants
Wikipedia has a pretty good intro to the IPA sounds, even some of the "click" sounds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio
https://en....
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Diagram of all IPA sound places
Wondering if there is a diagram similar to the following one, but that lists all of the mouth configurations such as for ʃ and everything else.
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“Character sets” for top 100 languages (as opposed to Unicode)
Searching "the number of languages" shows about ~7,000.
However, Google Translate only has ~100 languages listed.
That makes me wonder if the languages have a lot of overlapping/duplicated elements.
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Complete list of sounds in all languages (IPA)
Wondering if there is a list of all the IPA sound combinations and how to pronounce them. Searching brings up a bunch of partial and not too well done lists, so wondering if there is a standard or ...
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Resource for getting agentive noun from verb automatically
I am trying to get (in some automated fashion) the agentive noun of a given verb. For instance we have
buy, buyer
sell, seller
invest, investor
I was wondering whether there is some resource that ...
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Is there a better series of sentences for observing features of a language?
I've often tried to find a few short sentences that encapsulate most of the features of a language, a sort of Learn X in Y Minutes for spoken languages, if you will.
Tim Ferriss, a Renaissance man of ...
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Corpus for simple or basic english
I'm trying to find a good, extensive corpus that uses "simple" or "basic" English, in the sense that it should be easily understandable to people who are not proficient in the English language. For ...
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Which free resource to find word frequency?
My hypothesis is that math jargon is more aliening than other academic fields, and I want to concrete that by an example of the average frequency of the word in these two definitions of "...
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Search tool question
The World Wide Web provides access to an extremely rich collection of written texts and transcriptions of dialogue from both current and historical sources. But I often have trouble searching for ...
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List of Hungarian toponyms by interior/surface case
Hungarian toponyms can be grouped grammatically according to whether they take the "interior" cases (inessive, illative, and elative) or the "surface" cases (superessive, sublative, and delative) to ...
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Is there a source displaying when and where a word was first attested?
Is there a source at which one can find out when and where a word first came into use/print? Especially interested in scientific discourse.
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Word Lists of Various Languages [closed]
I was looking for lists of words (preferably txt files) in various languages I was looking for just lists of words without any additional data spanning as many languages as possible. Thanks
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German corpus for grapheme-phoneme (G2P or P2G) mapping
TIMIT is a well known, publicly accessible corpus that contains phonetic and lexicalic transcription of language (American English).
A sample sentence of TIMIT looks like:
She had your dark suit in ...
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Natural Language Processing Meta-Super-Dictionary
The end goal of asking this question is to find a big (probably several hundred petabyte) data file expressing the meanings of words based on their interactions with other word in as many languages as ...
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Is there a frequency-ranked corpus of Punjabi NAV lemmata?
I am looking for a list of lexical roots for Punjabi, with frequency information whereby one can get an idea what the 1000 most-frequent words of the language are. I need to exclude case forms etc. ...
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glossary/dictionary corpus for NLP task
I am looking for glossary/dictionary corpus in machine readable form. Basically huge file/db which would contain word and its definition. Here is sample:
Authenticity: a feature that characterizes ...
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Phonetically annotated speech corpus
Are there any phonetically annotated corpora of accented English speech?
Preferably English spoken by native English speakers with a strong accents, such as speakers from a specific region in the UK ...
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Looking for large word list file/db (>1k) with IPA transcriptions
I'm building a mobile app to practice/teach IPA. The idea is you look at a word and then input the correct IPA.
I've used some dictionary APIs, but they either:
Don't include the IPA
If it includes ...
