Talk:Linguistic categories

Evidence of “replacement”?

It does seem that the GOLD Ontology project is dormant, but what evidence is there that the alternatives listed are ‘increasingly replaced by OLiA (for linguistic annotation, building on GOLD and ISOcat) and lexinfo.net (for dictionary metadata, building on ISOcat)’? babbage (talk) 21:49, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm biased, but that's what Google Scholar says (updated Oct 2021 for counts of 2020; further updated Nov 2023 for counts of 2021-2022):

	"general ontology of linguistic description"	"Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation"	"lexinfo" "ontology"	"ISOcat"	"Clarin Concept Registry"	"DatCatInfo"
2022	4	15	34	27	13	5
2021	1	19	41	20	8	6
2020	6	21	38	31	9	6
2019	1	16	20	23	3	8
2018	0	13	24	27	9	4
2017	2	16	30	62	17	2
2016	3	8	45	55	7
2015	2	16	61	89	16	1
2014	1	5	45	119	1
2013	4	9	33	105
2012	5	10	38	144
2011	3	2	17	75
2010	3	1	23	72

Note that these numbers should not be blindly interpreted, e.g., ISOcat is *not* a popular replacement as it is by itself *officially* replaced by DatCatInfo and Clarin Concept Registry -- but it's frequently mentioned because other resources build on it. Likewise, lexinfo is not a full replacement, because this applies to a subset of GOLD data only. Chiarcos (talk) 15:32, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

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Use of the present tense (with an "as of" date from a past year)

three instances noticed

I noticed three instances of the << "Use of the present tense (with an "as of" date from a past year)" >> in this article ... that is, the article "Linguistic categories", whose current version was: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linguistic_categories&oldid=1177456836 ("as of" when this paragraph was written).

One instance was in the sentence

• At as of February 2019, there are just over 100 treebanks of more than 70 languages available in the UD inventory.

and another was in the sentence

• As of 2018, GOLD data remains an important terminology hub in the context of the Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud, but as it is not actively maintained anymore, its function is increasingly replaced by OLiA (for linguistic annotation, building on GOLD and ISOcat) and lexinfo.net (for dictionary metadata, building on ISOcat).

and a third instance was in the sentence

• As of May 2020, successor systems, CLARIN Concept Registry and DatCatInfo are only emerging.

is there already a "correct place" (other than here) to "Talk:" about this?

I realize that the topic of this comment is one that might be of general interest throughout Wikipedia, not only in regard to this article.

Hence, there might already be some discussion, and/or perhaps some policies or at least "advice" -level guidelines, about this topic ... on some other "Talk:" pages (or other places! ... perhaps including some guidelines such as "Wikipedia:As of" [G1] e.g.)

However, if so, I do not know where to look. For example, I tried to [use a "Ctrl-F" browser command, to] search for any occurrence of the word "tense" at [G1] <--(see the wikilink for [G1] shown above) and that did not find any such occurrences.

I also found some interesting comments in the "Chronological items" section of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers [G2]; However, a similar search for the word "tense" there (throughout the entire web page for [G2], which includes other sections) also failed to find any such occurrences.

An attempt was also made to search for the word "tense" at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines [G3] and -- (again) -- the word "tense" was not found there.

Apparently I was looking in all of (or ... "some" of) the wrong places. Please forgive me if it is/'was' right under my nose and I just did not see it (or ... if my search target should have been something other than the word "tense".)

I also searched at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_editing_guidelines [G4a]. No luck there either.

Any advice, or other comments?

Thanks for listening. Mike Schwartz (talk) 09:06, 25 December 2023 (UTC)