Citation practices¶

Any publication, thesis, conference presentation, or preprint that uses ExELang data must follow these citation and disclosure guidelines. This protects participants, acknowledges contributors fairly, and maintains the project's data governance commitments.

Always cite the archives¶

All publications must cite the three scientific archives that make all of this work possible.

Homebank¶

All publications using a HomeBank corpus must include two citations: 1. the reference for the specific corpus used, as listed in the corpus documentation page on HomeBank. 2. the following reference for the archive itself: VanDam M, Warlaumont AS, Bergelson E, Cristia A, Soderstrom M, De Palma P., MacWhinney B. (2016). HomeBank: An online repository of daylong child-centered audio recordings. Seminars in Speech and Language, 37, 128–141. DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1580745

For full citation rules, see: https://talkbank.org/homebank/rules.html

Databrary¶

Each dataset on Databrary has its own DOI and an automatically generated citation available on its volume page. The standard format is:

Author(s) (year). Title of dataset. Databrary. https://doi.org/10.17910/XXXXX

To find the citation for a specific dataset, navigate to its volume page on Databrary. For general information, see: https://databrary.org

The language Archive (TLA)¶

The language archive automatically generates a citation for each collection. The format is:

Author(s) (year). Title of collection. The Language Archive. https://hdl.handle.net/XXXXX (Accessed YYYY-MM-DD)

The citation is available directly on the collection page in the archive. For general information, see: https://archive.mpi.nl/tla

Model Development and Benchmarking Publications¶

When custodians publish work that falls within the defined scope of the consortium — that is, work specifically concerned with the development, training, evaluation, or benchmarking of automated models — they are entitled to do so without including corpus collectors as co-authors. The custodians' obligation in such cases is to: Cite each dataset used, following the citation guidelines outlined above for the relevant archive. Note that in rare cases, citing everyone may not be possible; see scenario 1 below

Research Beyond Model Development: Consultation Requirement¶

When custodians intend to use consortium data for research that addresses substantive scientific questions beyond model performance — for example, cross-linguistic analysis of child-directed speech, or developmental trajectory modeling — they must notify each affected corpus collector in advance. The notification must:

• Describe the research question and the planned use of the data.
• Offer the corpus collector the option to withdraw their data from the specific project within a certain time frame. We suggest giving at least two weeks for the reply to arrive, and more over holiday times (which vary across countries, with some concentration around July-August in the Northern hemisphere, January-February in the Southern hemisphere).
• Offer the corpus collector the option to participate as a co-author, subject to their meeting standard co-authorship criteria as defined by the relevant journal or conference. Make sure to spell out what precise contributions are expected and the ideal timeline for them.

Bilateral Agreements¶

The rules in previous sections [a] and [b] represent the minimum baseline applicable to all ExELang Consortium members. Corpus collectors are free to negotiate separate bilateral agreements with custodians, modify, or extend these baseline terms.