The PrimerPrep program is designed to help you easily analyze texts in a language to discover the letters and words it uses and to determine how frequently they occur. PrimerPrep suggests an order for introducing letters in a primer based on their frequency, and allows you to modify the order with a simple drag-and-drop. Each time the order changes, PrimerPrep immediately recalculates and shows you the words that can be formed in each lesson.

Note: On some computers, when you start PrimerPrep it takes a little while to open the window. So when you first start the program, please be patient! It usually seems to start faster on subsequent runs.

As of Version 1.04, PrimerPrep has a French interface as well as English, and remembers the program selections for subsequent runs. There is a new option in the Configure menu to treat combining diacritics as separate characters. This might be important in languages where accents represent tone and are treated as a segment above the letters.

Initial steps with PrimerPrep (Extracted from the help file)

At a basic level, the PrimerPrep program is very simple to use. All you need to do is select Add Texts... from the File menu,... Read more

Parser and Writer for Syntax

The Parser And Writer for Syntax Starter Kit is affectionately also called PAWS.

As the name of the starter kit indicates, the Parser and Writer for Syntax (PAWS) has two purposes and four outputs:

• The Writer produces a rough draft of a grammar of the syntax of your language, based on the answers to the questions in each section of PAWS. This output file is in XLingPaper xml format. (See https://software.sil.org/xlingpaper/.)  There are three possible formats for the grammar write-up:
  • A practical grammar in English.
  • A practical grammar in Spanish.
  • A comparative grammar (to English).
• The Parser produces all the files needed for using the PC-PATR syntactic parser for parsing and disambiguation within CARLA Studio.

The task of writing a grammar for a language can seem so overwhelming that many give up without even trying. Completing and revising a draft is a much less daunting task, and the PAWS Starter Kit can provide that needed head start.

The PAWS Starter Kit takes advantage of XML technologies to create “actionable” knowledge which can be turned into a draft of a grammar write-up as... Read more

FLExTrans est un système de traduction automatique basé sur le transfert similaire à CARLA qui utilise Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) comme composant central. Un texte source commence dans le projet FLEx de la langue source et se termine après le processus de traduction dans le projet FLEx de la langue cible. Les étapes de base sont les suivantes :

1.Analyser le texte dans le projet FLEx source.

2.Lier les sens lexicaux qui se trouvent dans le texte source avec les sens du projet FLEx cible (il existe un outil Sense Linker Tool pour vous y aider).

3.Rédiger des règles de transfert qui convertissent les mots et les phrases sources en mots et phrases cibles.

4.Exécutez les six modules FLExTrans dans FLExTools et c'est terminé.

FLExTrans n'est pas, à bien des égards, un nouveau logiciel, mais plutôt un regroupement de nombreux logiciels qui existent déjà. FLEx est au cœur, mais il utilise aussi STAMP pour la synthèse et un moteur open-source appelé Apertium pour le composant de transfert. Le moteur d'Apertium est très puissant et c'est au format XML de transfert d'Apertium que les règles sont... Read more