Robert Forkel

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology — Germany

Computer Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Natural Language Processing Techniques(105), Linguistics and Cultural Studies(60), Lexicography and Language Studies(34), Language and cultural evolution(33), Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity(22)

Publications292 total

A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities
Scientific Data·2025Open Access
An Update on the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Oceanic Linguistics·2025
A global and interoperable dataset of linguistic distributions derived from the Atlas of the World’s Languages
Scientific Data·2025Open Access
Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data
Open Research Europe·2025Open Access
The Austronesian and the Micronesian Comparative Dictionaries as CLDF datasets
Scientific Data·2025Open Access
glottolog/glottolog: Glottolog database 5.2.1
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
glottolog/glottolog: Glottolog database 5.2.1 as CLDF
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data
Open Research Europe·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Lexibank Analysed
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
CLDF dataset derived from Grollemund et al.'s "Bantu expansion shows habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals" from 2015
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Advancing the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications with New Workflows and Data
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Database of Cross-Linguistic Norms, Ratings, and Relations for Words and Concepts as CLDF dataset
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
CLLD Concepticon 3.4.0
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
CLLD Concepticon 3.4.0 as CLDF dataset
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
IMTVault
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2024Open Access
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages
Nature Human Behaviour·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
A revised digital edition of Wurm & Hattori’s Language Atlas of the Pacific Area
Scientific Data·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies
Scientific Reports·2024Open Access
CLTS. Cross-Linguistic Transcription Systems
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Johann‐Mattis List(22), Simon J. Greenhill(16), Harald Hammarström(14), Christoph Rzymski(10), Russell D. Gray(9), Tiago Tresoldi(9), Martín Haspelmath(9), Sebastian Bank(8), Annika Tjuka(5), Gereon A. Kaiping(3), Nataliia Hübler(3), Damián E. Blasí(3), Luke Maurits(3), Michael Dunn(3), Claire Bowern(3), Outi Vesakoski(3), Miina Norvik(3), Roberto Zariquiey(3), Cormac Anderson(3), Johann Mattis List(3)