SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer
Last corporate release: version 3.0, released October 2009.
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
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Current Status
Version 3.0 of FieldWorks Language Explorer was released in October 2009. You can read about new features and improvements here.
Language Explorer is currently in use in over 135 language projects, and is used by over 175 people. You can read some of their comments here.
Language Explorer is being constantly improved. A new version of SIL FieldWorks is usually released at least once a year (often one corporate release and one to two stable releases.)
Demo movies made with Language Explorer 3.0 are available to view online. These allow you to preview the new version, and see the program in use. You can also download and install these movies when you download FieldWorks 6.0.
Language Explorer is a component of SIL FieldWorks and is available under the SIL Open Source License. Because this license is granted to the user for no cost, the user is not entitled to free technical support from SIL. Please send bug reports to .
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Future
We have put a lot of work into creating a powerful framework upon which to build integrated linguistics, anthropology, and translation tools. Future versions of the application may well support other tasks, such as
- phonology study
- syntax study
- discourse study
- spell-checking
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Technical Details
If you are involved in supporting others who are using Language Explorer, you may want see the Technical Support Documents.
Materials are available for software developers and testers who might be interested in subsequent Alpha and Beta versions and open-source development.