[open-linguistics] Linguistic glossaries

Sun Jun 9 20:53:12 UTC 2013

All that's true. But "[i]n the beginning GOLD was constructed from the  
top-down using SIL International's on-line glossary of linguistic terms  
and standard linguistics sources ..."  
(http://linguistics-ontology.org/info/about)

Best,
Christian

On Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:35:56 +0200, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:

> In what sense is GOLD derived from work by SIL?  It grew out
> of Scott Farrar's PhD work at the University of Arizona, and is
> now maintained by LINGUIST List.
>
> Emily
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Christian Chiarcos
> <christian.chiarcos at web.de> wrote:
>> Actually, GOLD is originally derived from SIL. From a linguistic point  
>> of
>> view, they're usually doing a truly great job, but some people object  
>> their
>> religious-political agenda, hence an occasional reluctance to use their
>> resources. And of course, SIL by itself is neither a standardization  
>> body
>> nor an open community, so people prefer to work with SIL-derived work  
>> that
>> is maintained by a community (e.g., GOLD) or independent institutions  
>> (e.g.,
>> ISO).
>>
>> Another machine-readable terminology repository is ISOcat
>> (http://isocat.org), of course, but it lacks the overall coherence of  
>> GOLD
>> due to its bottom-up design. Also of interest may be the TDS ontology
>> (http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/index.html). All of these are,  
>> however,
>> intended to be machine-readable rather than human-readable what seems  
>> to be
>> what you're asking for.
>>
>> A human-readable repository of high quality is Grammis
>> (http://hypermedia.ids-mannheim.de/call/public/termwb.html, German  
>> only).
>> This one summarizes and defines the theoretical concepts employed in the
>> publications of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Mannheim, Germany)  
>> in the
>> last 30 years or so. They have a certain band-width of theoretical
>> positions, but parts of their terminology are really IDS-specific.
>>
>> When I started to develop the Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation  
>> almost a
>> decade ago, I did a survey on terminology portals for linguistic
>> terminology, and I was somewhat surprised to find to many of them. (And  
>> in
>> the end, I took GOLD+ISOcat as my point of departure.) The survey is  
>> long
>> outdated, of course, but I would guess that it should not be too  
>> complicated
>> to find one with reasonable reliability and a theoretical orientation  
>> that
>> suits your needs best. And of course, you are invited to share any  
>> results
>> of such a survey ;)
>>
>> All the best,
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:20:17 +0200, Hugh Paterson III
>> <hugh at thejourneyler.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Well there is the GOLD ontology...  not quite a glossary, but any  
>>> online
>>> linguistics glossary should have a relationship with the GOLD ontology.
>>>
>>> But I too would be interested to know what the concerns are with the  
>>> SIL
>>> glossary. (If you mean the one which was part of the online version of
>>> LinguaLinks). (as there is also the SIL french-englsih and the SIL
>>> spanish-english linguistic glossaries.)
>>>
>>> - Hugh
>>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Blume, Maria wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi: This is a general question from someone new to this area, mainly
>>>> directed to the people who attended the LDL Workshop in Frankfurt,  
>>>> since I
>>>> know it was mentioned there.
>>>>
>>>> What are reliable online glossaries for linguistic terms? I know the  
>>>> SIL
>>>> one but I think someone mentioned some concerns about it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> María
>>>> María Blume
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Department of Languages and Linguistics
>>>> Liberal Arts Building, Room 232
>>>> University of Texas at El Paso
>>>> El Paso, TX 79968
>>>> mblume at utep.edu
>>>> 915-747-6320
>>>>
>>>> Director of the UTEP Language Acquisition and Linguistics Research Lab
>>>> Liberal Arts Building, Room 220
>>>> University of Texas at El Paso
>>>> El Paso, TX 79968
>>>> 915-747-7024
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
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