{"id":317,"date":"2023-03-31T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/?page_id=317"},"modified":"2025-05-31T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T14:26:36","slug":"mecore-databases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/mecore-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-linguistic dataset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SIGTYP 2023<\/strong>: The database contains information about \u223c50 clause-embedding predicates in 16 languages: Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, K\u00ee\u00eetharaka, Mandarin, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Database<\/strong>: The database can be accessed here: \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/datashare.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/10283\/8860\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/datashare.ed.ac.uk\/handle\/10283\/8860\">Version 0 in Edinburgh DataShare<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Accompanying paper<\/strong>: Please refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/sigtyp.github.io\/workshops\/2023\/sigtyp\/papers\/9_a_crosslinguistic_database_for.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sigtyp.github.io\/workshops\/2023\/sigtyp\/papers\/9_a_crosslinguistic_database_for.pdf\">our SIGTYP paper (\u00d6zy\u0131ld\u0131z et al. 2023)<\/a> for details of the database. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Contents<\/strong>: The database is saved as a zip file containing 16 directories each corresponding to a single language. Each directory contains three files: \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a csv file summarising \u223c15 semantic properties and \u223c12 combinatorial properties of predicates; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a pdf document that details the example sentences used to annotate the properties; and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a README file that contains information about the language as well as language-specific features of the dataset. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Questionnaire<\/strong>: The questionnaire used to elicit the properties can be accessed at OSF <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/vd8mg\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/vd8mg\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tools<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TJKlochowicz\/Mecore_analysis_tools\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TJKlochowicz\/Mecore_analysis_tools\">Tomasz Klochowicz&#8217;s MECORE Analysis Tools<\/a> provide tools to automatically analyze the data collected in the MECORE Database. They allow users to safely unify, merge and compare data. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>How to cite the database<\/strong>: \u00d6zy\u0131ld\u0131z, Deniz, Ciyang Qing, Floris Roelofsen, Maribel Romero and&nbsp;Wataru Uegaki. 2023. A Crosslinguistic Database for Combinatorial and Semantic Properties of Attitude Predicates.&nbsp;<em>Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2023)<\/em>, pages 65\u201375, Association for Computational Linguistics.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tomasz Klochowicz&#8217;s tools have to be credited independently. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIGTYP 2023: The database contains information about \u223c50 clause-embedding predicates in 16 languages: Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, K\u00ee\u00eetharaka, Mandarin, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/mecore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}