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IPLR: an online resource for Greek word-level and sublexical information

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We present a new online psycholinguistic resource for Greek based on analyses of written corpora combined with text processing technologies developed at the Institute for Language & Speech Processing (ILSP), Greece. The “ILSP PsychoLinguistic Resource” (IPLR) is a freely accessible service via a dedicated web page, at http://speech.ilsp.gr/iplr. IPLR provides analyses of user-submitted letter strings (words and nonwords) as well as frequency tables for important units and conditions such as syllables, bigrams, and neighbors, calculated over two word lists based on printed text corpora and their phonetic transcription. Online tools allow retrieval of words matching user-specified orthographic or phonetic patterns. All results and processing code (in the Python programming language) are freely available for noncommercial educational or research use.

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We thank Despina Paizi for information on Italian databases and Eleni Orfanidou for comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou, 15125, Maroussi, Greece

    Athanassios Protopapas, Aimilios Chalamandaris & Pirros Tsiakoulis

  2. University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece

    Marina Tzakosta

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Protopapas, A., Tzakosta, M., Chalamandaris, A. et al. IPLR: an online resource for Greek word-level and sublexical information. Lang Resources & Evaluation 46, 449–459 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-010-9130-z

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