Lexical Elaboration Explorer

Mit dem Lexical Elaboration Explorer lässt sich erieren, wie oft ein Wort wie z.B. Schnee in einer Sprache bzw. deren Wörterbuch vorkommt (via scientificamerican.com):

“But this study brings a twist: rather than the number of words, it measured their proportion, the slice of dictionary real estate taken up by a concept. This produced elaboration scores for hundreds of concepts, from “abandonment” to “zoo,” based on how many times the English words for those concepts appeared in the definitions of foreign words. You can explore the results in this online module that shows which languages have the most words for each concept and which concepts have the most words in each language.”

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