National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
PLoS One. 2021 Apr 30;16(4):e0250891. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250891. eCollection 2021.
While a number of tools have been developed for researchers to compute the lexical characteristics of words, extant resources are limited in their useability and functionality. Specifically, some tools require users to have some prior knowledge of some aspects of the applications, and not all tools allow users to specify their own corpora. Additionally, current tools are also limited in terms of the range of metrics that they can compute. To address these methodological gaps, this article introduces LexiCAL, a fast, simple, and intuitive calculator for lexical variables. Specifically, LexiCAL is a standalone executable that provides options for users to calculate a range of theoretically influential surface, orthographic, phonological, and phonographic metrics for any alphabetic language, using any user-specified input, corpus file, and phonetic system. LexiCAL also comes with a set of well-documented Python scripts for each metric, that can be reproduced and/or modified for other research purposes.
虽然已经开发了一些工具供研究人员计算词汇的词汇特征，但现有的资源在可用性和功能方面受到限制。具体来说，一些工具要求用户对应用程序的某些方面有一定的了解，并非所有工具都允许用户指定自己的语料库。此外，当前的工具在它们可以计算的度量范围方面也受到限制。为了解决这些方法上的差距，本文介绍了 LexiCAL，这是一种快速、简单和直观的词汇变量计算器。具体来说，LexiCAL 是一个独立的可执行文件，为用户提供了使用任何用户指定的输入、语料库文件和语音系统，计算一系列具有理论影响力的表面、正字法、音韵和语音学度量的选项。LexiCAL 还附带了一组针对每个度量的记录良好的 Python 脚本，可用于其他研究目的的再现和/或修改。
