All texts are from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong government websites.

• Lexicon: includes information on each wordID: word (e.g., walked), lemma (e.g., walk), and part of speech (e.g., vvd). • Sources: genre or country, source, and title of each text. • Text: Provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line, with no annotations.

In the OPUS project we try to convert and align free online data, to add linguistic annotation, and to provide the community with a publicly available parallel corpus. OPUS is based on open source products and the corpus is also delivered as an open content package.

The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) is designed as an archive of linguistic data and statistical code. The archive is open access, which means that all information is available to to everyone. All postings are accompanied by searchable metadata that identify the researchers, the languages and linguistic phenomena involved, the statistical methods applied, and scholarly publications based on the data (where relevant).

Linguists worldwide are invited to post datasets and statistical models used in linguistic research. The TROLLing Steering Committee is responsible for the scientific content of the archive, whereas the University Library provides quality and relevance control, in addition to user management. The University Library also oversees the technical and legal structure of TROLLing.

TROLLing is built on the Dataverse Network, a SW originated from Harvard University, and developed in coordination with CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, a networked federation of European data repositories).

The interactive database will also contain additional information on languages (genealogical classification, alternative names) and on each language-feature pair (bibliographical reference, example sentence). The interactive maps can be zoomed and panned, dot colors and shapes can be customized, a few map properties (rivers, country names, etc.) are switchable, and languages can be searched by language name, family and genus name, country, and region within country. With the mouse over effect the corresponded language name is shown immediately and with a click the language profile appears in a separate window. The generation of compound features will be very useful for typological research. For example, the user will be able to correlate the existence of an question-word-fronting rule with particular word order types, the existence of tone with the size of the consonant inventory, or the alignment type (accusative, ergative, active-inactive) with the head-dependent marking type. Furthermore geographical and genealogical information can be included.

The first version of WALS was published as a book with CD-ROM in 2005 by Oxford University Press. (See link above) The first online version was published in April 2008. The second online version was published in April 2011.

The 2013 edition of WALS corrects a number of coding errors especially in Chapters 1 and 3. A full list of changes is available here.