This newsletter highlights DLS's participation in Outilingua!
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| Dictionary & Lexicography Services SIL International February 2025 |
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| Outilingua Workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire |
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| Kevin Warfel and Marlene Ferguson recently represented DLS at the Outilingua workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in January. Outilingua exists to enable language technology personnel in Francophone Africa to develop knowledge and skill in the use of software tools available to them. These are key people, as they are the ones to whom linguists, translators, and literacy workers go when they need help using their computers or software! This year there were 19 participants who provide technical support to nine different countries in Francophone Africa. Read more... |
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| LEX101 and LEX201 have now been translated into French, Spanish and Portuguese. If there is another language you would like to see the courses translated into, please fill out this form. |
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| New Beta Version of FLEx 9.2.5 |
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| A new beta version of FLEx has been released. It includes a new feature: the ability to export to Word without using Pathway. You may download it here: https://software.sil.org/field... There are still around 120 Webonary sites that need to be reuploaded from FLEx 9.1 or later. Please do this for all the Webonary sites you manage as soon as possible. |
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| Work is underway on a new lexical tool called FieldWorks Lite. There are several goals for this new tool:
- Provide a simpler interface for doing lexicography (similar to Language Forge or WeSay).
- Provide a better way of working across multiple tools: FieldWorks Lite syncs well with FLEx.
- A more flexible approach to Send/Receive.
- A tool that could serve as a lexicography plugin for Paratext.
This tool is brand new and has reached a Beta level. It still has limited features, but there is enough to get an idea of the direction it is going. If you would like to experiment with it, please contact Kevin Hahn.
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| The Combine is a word-collection tool designed to be used in conjunction with a Rapid Word Collection workshop or a similar strategy driven by the use of semantic domains. There are three delivery forms for The Combine: - Internet – https://thecombine.app
- on a NUC (an AC-powered device that functions as a server for The Combine)
- on a specially configured laptop running Linux that functions as a server for The Combine
The second and third options were developed for contexts where Internet access is unreliable or non-existent. For more information about these options, please contact [email protected]. |
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| We continue to publish new dictionaries on Webonary. Currently, there are 359 published dictionaries; many also provide grammar descriptions. To apply for a Webonary account, please fill out this application form. |
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| DLS continues to create dictionary apps for the Google Play store. If you need help in creating a dictionary app, please fill out this application.
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| FLEx Parser Workshop Invitation |
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| A FLEx parser workshop is planned for August 11-22, 2025 in Manila (Philippines). This workshop is for field linguists, translators or other language personnel who assist a translation or language development project and need assistance to set up the FLEx parsers for a more efficient project. The fee to take part in this year’s workshop is lowest if registration is done before March 1st. Two members of the DLS team have served as facilitators at previous instances of this workshop (2023 – Bangkok; 2024 – Dallas), and at least one of them is planning to be present at this year’s workshop. See Parser Workshop Invitation. |
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| Verna Stutzman, MA-Linguistics, MA-Counseling
Dictionary & Lexicography Services Coordinator
SIL International
Skype: verna.stutzman |
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