Tools for the Linguistic Analysis of the CHILDES Database

CHILDES 数据库语言分析工具

• 批准号: 9808974
• 负责人: Brian MacWhinney
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-15 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9808974&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Tools; Linguistic; Analysis; CHILDES; Database

The goal of this project is the development of computational tools to facilitate the linguistic analysis of transcript data in the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) database. The three areas being targeted are lexicon, morphosyntax, and phonology. The goal of the lexical initiative is the construction of a keyed relational database that will serve as a dynamic lexical frequency dictionary for each of the major languages in the database. This database will be available to researchers in electronic form. A canonical form of the dictionary will also be published in book format. A series of demonstration studies based on the use of this database will be completed to illustrate to researchers how a lexical database can serve as the foundation for modern crosslinguistic studies of lexical development. The goal of the morphosyntactic initiative is the construction of tools to permit automatic tagging and parsing of the corpora in the CHILDES database. Using these parsed and tagged structures, additional programs will be designed to compute morpheme usage and omission, phrasal structure, clause structures, and sentence structure. These measures can be used to compare across languages, age levels, and clinical subtypes. The goal of the phonological initiative is the construction of a set of tools for developing and analyzing phonological databases. Although these data will initially be represented in standard CHILDES file format, they will also be converted into a relational database that will facilitate a variety of analyses of phonological processes. The completion of this work will markedly improve the usability of the CHILDES database for more advanced forms of linguistic analysis.

该项目的目的是开发计算工具，以促进Childes（儿童语言数据交换系统）数据库中笔录数据的语言分析。所针对的三个领域是词典，形态元素和语音学。 词汇计划的目的是构建一个钥匙关系数据库，该数据库将作为数据库中每种主要语言的动态词汇频率词典。该数据库将以电子形式提供给研究人员。字典的规范形式也将以书籍格式出版。将完成一系列基于该数据库的示范研究，以向研究人员说明词汇数据库如何作为现代词汇发展研究的基础。 形态句法计划的目的是构建工具，以自动标记和解析Childes数据库中的语料库。使用这些解析和标记的结构，将设计其他程序来计算词素的使用和遗漏，短语结构，从句结构和句子结构。这些措施可用于比较跨语言，年龄水平和临床亚型。 语音倡议的目的是构建一组用于开发和分析语音数据库的工具。尽管这些数据最初将以标准的Childes文件格式表示，但它们也将转换为关系数据库，该数据库将促进各种语音过程分析。 这项工作的完成将显着提高Childes数据库的可用性，以进行更高级的语言分析形式。