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Extracting transparent compounds from Lexibank

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Many languages make use of transparent compounding processes in order to express certain words in their lexicon. With time, these processes can loose their transparency, making them hard to detect automatically. With large data collections simple tests can be designed to detect transparent compounds and investigate their distribution. This study illustrates how a very rudimentary analysis of cross-linguistically recurring transparent compound patterns can be applied to Lexibank data with a few lines of Python code.

Source: Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice: Tutorials on Computational Approaches to the History and Diversity of Languages

DOI: 10.15475/calcip.2025.1.5

Author: List, Johann-Mattis

Institution: University of Passau

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W6887350468

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