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Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary development

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Re: Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary development

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Post by mikabr »

rspeer wrote: post #9
mcfrank wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, thanks for your interest - we only have 50 concurrent users licensed. Never thought we'd get this much interest. :)

Would it be possible to mirror just the data somewhere else, such as S3? I don't need the R code, but this sounds like it would make good companion data to my own wordfreq [1]. It would be interesting to see which words are learned early but relatively uncommon in corpora, and generally to be able to measure differences in register between child and adult language. [1] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wordfreq

we have an R package which you can use to access the data: https://github.com/langcog/wordbankr

we've done some analyses predicting words' learnability from frequency and other factors: http://langcog.stanford.edu/papers_new/braginsky-2016-underr...

Re: Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary development

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Post by mcfrank »

rspeer wrote: post #9
mcfrank wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, thanks for your interest - we only have 50 concurrent users licensed. Never thought we'd get this much interest. :)

Would it be possible to mirror just the data somewhere else, such as S3? I don't need the R code, but this sounds like it would make good companion data to my own wordfreq [1]. It would be interesting to see which words are learned early but relatively uncommon in corpora, and generally to be able to measure differences in register between child and adult language. [1] https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/wordfreq

Very cool!

All our code is at http://github.com/langcog/wordbank and you can access the database directly using the wordbankr R package (on cran).

A paper doing something similar to what you describe is in prep, with a conference version here:

http://langcog.stanford.edu/papers_new/braginsky-2016-underr...

Re: Wordbank: An open database of children's vocabulary development

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Post by euph0ria »

mcfrank wrote: post #7
euph0ria wrote: post #3

Comparing Swedish/Danish/English in the vocab: http://wordbank.stanford.edu/analyses?name=vocab_norms Seems like data sample is too small to infer anything useful for Swedish.. but comparing Danish and English is interesting. Seems like Danes outperform or English kids underperform. Would be interesting to understand what the major driver is for the effect.

Hi, original researcher here - these forms have different words and different numbers of items, so it's complicated to compare absolute proportions across languages. I wouldn't infer that there are differences between populations from differences in the norms.

Thank you! Appreciate the answer!
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