Colour Term Dictionaries: English, Russian and Bilingual

Overview

This dataset contains dictionaries of colour terms, one in English, one in Russian, and one bilingual annotated with a three-dimensional taxonomic scheme covering hue, saturation, and colour temperature. The dictionaries were compiled for computational analysis of colour terms in textual data and are suitable for use in corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, sentiment analysis, and related fields of computational humanities and language research.

Each dictionary distinguishes between colour entries (specific named colours) and descriptor entries (modifying terms such as bright, pale, vivid that qualify colours without specifying hue). All taxonomy values have been manually verified and cross-checked for internal consistency and cross-linguistic alignment between the English and Russian versions.

Includes LIWC-format (.dicx), Excel, CSV, JSON, JSONL, and TSV versions. Taxonomy covers hue (9 categories), saturation (3), and colour temperature (3). English: 141 entries. Russian: 222 entries.