Anna Jancso


2020

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The ACQDIV Corpus Database and Aggregation Pipeline
Anna Jancso | Steven Moran | Sabine Stoll
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

We present the ACQDIV corpus database and aggregation pipeline, a tool developed as part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project ACQDIV, which aims to identify the universal cognitive processes that allow children to acquire any language. The corpus database represents 15 corpora from 14 typologically maximally diverse languages. Here we give an overview of the project, database, and our extensible software package for adding more corpora to the current language sample. Lastly, we discuss how we use the corpus database to mine for universal patterns in child language acquisition corpora and we describe avenues for future research.