The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

By Robert Forkel. 2009

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Linguistically Naïve != Language Independent: Why NLP Needs Linguistic Typology (2009, neutral): “The preeminent typological database among those which are currently publicly available is WALS: The World Atlas of Linguistic Structures Online (Haspelmath et al., 2008).”
Gender in Language and Gender in Employment (2015, background): “In some languages, gender is evident in almost every phrase, while in other languages it is entirely absent (Corbett, 2008a).”
URIEL and lang2vec: Representing languages as typological, geographical, and phylogenetic vectors (2017, methodology): “The syntax features are adapted (after conversion to binary features) from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) (Dryer and Haspel-math, 2013), directly from Syntactic Structures of World Languages (Collins and Kayne, 2011) (whose features are already binary), and indirectly by text-mining t”
Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences (2012, background): “The smallest number of vowels in a language is two (the language Yimas of Papua New Guinea), the largest 14 (German), with an average of six across languages (Maddieson, 2011b).”
Source and Translation Classification using Most Frequent Words (2013, background): “For instance, French lacks a case system (Dryer and Haspelmath, 2011), and makes instead use of prepositions.”