phrasescollected

phrasescollected is a collaborative online repository that catalogues widely used phrases, idioms, and recurring collocations across multiple languages. It serves researchers, educators, writers, and developers by providing a structured resource to study lexical patterns, phraseology, and language use. The project emphasizes open data, reproducibility, and community contributions.

Entries are stored as phrase records with fields such as language, phrase text, part of speech, formality, frequency estimate, sources, and usage notes. The database supports queries by language, keyword, register, or semantic field, and also offers network views of related phrases and common collocations. The organization aims to balance breadth of coverage with clear documentation to aid interpretability and reuse.

Data sourcing and licensing involve contributions from open corpora, licensed texts where permitted, and community submissions, all subject to moderation. Content is released under an open license that permits reuse with attribution, with guidelines to protect copyright where necessary and to maintain data quality and consistency.

Access and tools include a public website with search and browse interfaces, and an API that returns JSON data for integration with third-party applications. Available formats for bulk download include CSV and JSON. Documentation covers data schema, contributor guidelines, licensing, and API usage to support reproducibility.

Governance and community involvement are managed by a steering committee with regional maintainers to support language coverage and policy enforcement. A code of conduct and moderation rules govern contributions to ensure accuracy, consistency, and respectful collaboration.

See also: lexicon, corpus linguistics, idiom, collocation, language data resources.