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FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)

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Submitted by languist on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 14:05
Your rating: None Average: 3.7 (7 votes)

FieldWorks Language Explorer is the lexical and text tools component of SIL FieldWorks. It is an open source desktop application designed to help field linguists perform many common tasks. It can help you:

  • elicit and record lexical information
  • create dictionaries
  • interlinearize texts
  • analyse discourse features
  • study morphology

 
To see many of the features of FLEx before you download and install it, view the demo movies which are available online.
 

Version

3.0 (in FW 6.0)

Developer

SIL

Supported

free

Supported Operating Systems

Windows, Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows 7, Windows 7 x64

Unicode Support

Yes

Suitable tasks

  • SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Surveying and assessing the sociolinguistic situation
  • Collect word lists using IPA transcription and/or audio recording
  • Identify the most frequently used words in a natural text corpus
  • LINGUISTICS
  • Store and edit an electronic notebook of language data in a form conducive to analysis
  • Create and edit a lexical database (modeling morphology if necessary)
  • Validate the structure of lexical data
  • Create and edit a corpus of natural texts
  • Collect, transcribe and translate audiorecordings of natural texts (and other texts/utterances)
  • From the text corpus, look up words in the lexicon
  • Populate the lexical database using rapid data entry (e.g. DDP)
  • Interlinearize natural texts, sharing glosses with a lexical database
  • Interlinearize natural texts without a lexical database
  • Work with lexical data arranged by root (root-based rather than stem-based)
  • Define dictionary entries while grouping them together by semantic domain
  • Run a concordance search to find all occurrences of a given word in a text corpus
  • Supply additional information such as word category, example sentences, lexical relations
  • Test the text corpus against the grammar (e.g. the syntax or discourse)
  • Analyze the discourse structure of each type of discourse in the corpus
  • Organize a grammar for publication
  • Publish linguistic data (e.g. phonetic data and interlinear texts)
  • SCRIPTURE TRANSLATION
  • Interlinearize the translation, glossing it in an LWC
  • Create back-translations in an LWC
  • COMMON: Common Tasks and Foundational Technologies/Utilities
  • Localizable (i.e. user interface can be translated)
  • Version control and backups
  • Supports multiple scripts
  • Supports complex non-Roman scripts
  • Archive data in Unicode in a long-life file format (e.g. XML)
  • Check spelling
  • Check grammar
  • Convert data between Unicode and legacy encodings
  • Convert between formats (e.g. SFM and XML)
  • Do research, look up information
  • A useful template (e.g. for a research grant proposal or linguistic paper, etc.)

Interface Language

English, French, Indonesian, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese

License

Open Source

Download Page

SIL FieldWorks Standard Edition 6.0
SIL FieldWorks Bible Translators Edition 6.0

Website

http://www.sil.org/computing/fieldworks/flex/index.htm

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