One protocol, many language teams
COGNILANG grows as a federation of language teams running the same protocol on their own pairs. The pilot team (EN–FR–AR, GRÉLIA) maintains the shared instruments and the cross-team comparison; each team owns its corpus, its annotations, and its publications.
Expectations on both sides
A language team brings
· At least one researcher with native or near-native competence in each studied language
· Access to full-text news in those languages (archives, licences, or open sources)
· An institutional path to research-ethics review for the reader study
· Commitment to the invariant core and to documenting every adaptation
· A report and deviation log back to the network at the end of the cycle
The network provides
· The 18-worksheet researcher pack and the six-week reference plan
· The full code-book (LIN/DIS/TRA/PRD) with worked examples
· The COGNILANG Analyzer app for AI-assisted exploration
· Methodological support on alignment, surprisal, and validation
· A named panel in the cross-language comparison and co-authorship on network-level syntheses
Simple rules, stated up front
| Topic | Rule |
|---|---|
| Ownership | Each team owns its corpus, annotations, and results, and publishes independently. |
| What is shared | Frozen code-book, deviation log, gold-subset annotations, and derived measures — never raw copyrighted article texts. |
| Attribution | Reuse of instruments cites the COGNILANG protocol; network-level syntheses list all contributing teams. |
| Ethics | Reader studies run only under the team's institutional ethics approval; participant data never leaves the team. |
| Pair registry | One active team per language pair at a time; adjacent pairs (e.g. different regional varieties) are encouraged to coordinate. |
| Quality gate | A panel enters the cross-team comparison once κ ≥ 0.70 is documented and AI measures are validated on the gold subset. |
Register your language team
Tell us who you are and which languages you want to study. The coordination team replies by email with the instruments and the onboarding call.
Prefer email? Write directly to contact@cognilang.com.