interactive version of ASJP lexical database

[Sebastian Nordhoff]

Dear all,

an interactive version of the lexical database of the Automated
Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) is now online at
http://cldbstest.eva.mpg.de/asjp. The data come from Version 15 of the
ASJP database, whose official web location is
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~wichmann/languages.htm. The latter site
explains how to cite the database and gives references to sources. The
data consist of 5843 40-item word lists for 3922 different languages (as
defined in Ethnologue), i.e. around 58% of the world's languages. The
new interactive version, which I have created, allows you to

-display all lexemes from one language
http://cldbstest.eva.mpg.de/asjp/resource/language/id/l1728.xhtml

-display the lexemes for a certain concept in all languages
http://cldbstest.eva.mpg.de/asjp/resource/sense/id/s21.xhtml

-display a family with the corresponding neighbor-joining tree
http://cldbstest.eva.mpg.de/asjp/resource/family/id/fROMANCE.xhtml

-create your own set of languages and families and inspect the
corresponding neighbor-joining tree, which is computed on-the-fly
http://cldbstest.eva.mpg.de/asjp/freesearch?format=png&isos=cmn,jpn&families=ROMANCE

-compare the lexemes of a set of languages
http://cldbstest.eva.mpg.de/asjp/comparison?isos=fra,spa,ita

For more information about ASJP, the aims, methods, and conventions
used, and the scientific papers explicating the details, please visit
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~wichmann/ASJPHomePage.htm

Feedback is welcome

Best wishes
Sebastian Nordhoff