We present an attempt to link the large amount of different concept lists which are used in the linguistic literature, ranging from Swadesh lists in historical linguistics to naming tests in clinical studies and psycholinguistics. This resource, ourConcepticon, links 30 222 concept labels from 160 conceptlists to 2495 concept sets. Each concept set is given a unique identifier, a unique label, ...

This paper describes the practice and the reality of OWL conversion of Japanese WordNet and Japanese dictionary IPAdic. The outcomes of OWL conversion are linked to DBpedia Japanese dataset using lexical word matching. The difficulty originating from the specialty of Japanese, which is shareable by non-English languages, is focused. The potential of LOD in linguistics is also discussed. The goa...

The advent of usage-/exemplar-based approaches has resulted in a major change in the theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought to bear on the study of language acquisition/learning, structure, and use. In particular, methods from corpus linguistics are now frequently used to study distributional characteristics of linguistics units and what th...