Welcome

Purpose: To lay the foundations for a cyberinfrastructure for linguistics.

The e-Linguistics Toolkit (ELTK) is a Python library for working with linguistics data. It is a key component in the e-Linguistics project. It has the following functions:

• to manipulate linguistics data
• to translate un- or semi-structured data into RDF (using an ontology )
• to expose RDF data in various display forms
• to provide the basis for web frameworks and services for linguistics

As such, the toolkit is meant to facilitate a cyberinfrastructure for the field of linguistics. That is, it is meant to create a pathway for data interoperability in terms of encoding, format, and content. In order to achieve data interoperability, significant manipulation (transformation, validation, and merging) of original source data is required. Finally, the ELTK seeks to leverage NLP techniques to serve the whole of linguistics.

Documentation

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General Index all functions, classes, terms Module Index quick access to all documented modules

Acknowledgments

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for their support in developing these tools, specifically for the following grants:

DEL-0555303 (NSF) / FN‑50004‑06 (NEH), The Documentation and Preservation of Western Beboid Languages of Cameroon

BCS-0720670, Implementing the GOLD Community of Practice: Laying the Foundations for a Linguistics Cyberinfrastructure.