Language Ontologies & Varieties Explorer (LOVE)
Ein Werkzeug zur Navigation durch Merkmalsanalysen für den sprachübergreifenden Vergleich
- Datum
- seit 2022
- Status
- aktiv
- Personen
- Yusser Al Ghussin (Co-developer (FUAN))
Überblick
A Feature Analyses Navigation (FUAN) tool for exploring and comparing linguistic features across language varieties and families.
Overview
LOVE - Language Ontologies & Varieties Explorer - is an interactive tool for exploring and comparing linguistic features across language varieties and language families. One of its components, the Feature Analyses Navigation (FUAN), was developed together with Yusser Al Ghussin and allows researchers to navigate typological feature databases in a visual, query-driven way.
Motivation
Typological databases like WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures) contain rich cross-linguistic data, but their standard interfaces can make it difficult to ask comparative or exploratory questions, particularly across multiple features simultaneously. LOVE aims to lower this barrier with a browser-based interface that brings together ontologies, variety classifications, and feature annotations in one place.
Features
- Navigate linguistic features across language varieties using a visual interface.
- Filter and compare languages by typological properties.
- Integrates with the Kurdish Linguistic Variations Map for dialect-level data.
- [TODO: describe additional modules and data sources as the tool grows]
Current Status
LOVE is an ongoing project. The first prototype is live and accessible via the demo link above. Feature additions and new data integrations are planned. [TODO: update with new features and publications]
Schlagwörter
- linguistic features
- typology
- database
- multilingual
- visualisation