LAB: Linguistic Annotated Bibliography - a searchable portal for normed database information

Area of Science:

• Linguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Computational Linguistics

Background:

• Accessing reliable linguistic database norms and experimental stimuli can be challenging for researchers.
• Existing literature searches may not efficiently capture publication trends or specific variable calculations.

Purpose of the Study:

• To introduce the Linguistic Annotated Bibliography (LAB) as a searchable web portal.
• To provide researchers with a tool for accessing database norms, related programs, and variable calculations.
• To facilitate the exploration of publication trends in linguistics over the past 100 years.

Main Methods:

• Developed a searchable web portal (LAB) by coding publications based on language, stimuli type, and keywords.
• Included metadata such as number of stimuli, keywords (frequency, semantics, valence), and other relevant information.
• Analyzed publication rates and keyword usage trends over a 100-year period.

Main Results:

• The LAB portal offers quick and easy access to a wide range of linguistic data and norms.
• Researchers can efficiently search for specific experimental stimuli (words, pictures, symbols).
• Analysis reveals an increase in dataset size and linguistic variables in recent decades, correlating with advances in computational power.

Conclusions:

• The Linguistic Annotated Bibliography (LAB) serves as a valuable resource for linguistic research.
• The portal aids in both targeted stimulus selection and broad trend analysis in the field.
• Increased computational power has driven growth in data size and complexity within linguistic publications.