SIL International Media Release
FLEx version 3.0 unveiled for eLexicography conference
Dictionary View
Tools to edit multiple lexical entries in a single operation
(October 2009) SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) was released this month in version 3.0. FLEx is part of the SIL FieldWorks software suite that helps researchers to manage language and cultural data from the initial collection stage to the publication of dictionaries, text collections and grammars. Acclaimed by field researchers for features not found in other software, FLEx is currently being used in small- to medium-sized dictionary projects worldwide and at several universities.
Conference: eLexicography in the 21st Century
FLEx is being presented by David Baines of SIL at a conference, eLexicography in the 21st Century: New Challenges, New Applications (eLEX2009), held in Belgium 22–24 October. The conference aims to explore innovative developments in the field of electronic lexicography. SIL has developed more than 60 pieces of software to support the work of field workers. Like many other SIL software products, most of which are available to the public for free download, FLEx is available under the SIL Open Source License.
New features in version 3.0
- Spell-checking
- A second morphological parser (Hermit Crab)
- Ability to specify phonological features and rules in the Grammar
- Ability to specify affix process rules in the Lexicon instead of adding allomorphs to express a phonological change
- Ability to export a two-column Dictionary view to XHTML (using Firefox)
- Ability to configure Reversal Indexes for a Dictionary
- A discourse analysis text charting tool
- Ability to export the Text Chart (discourse analysis) to MS Word
- Ability to export interlinear text to Word 2007
- And much more
Improved features
- Faster processing
- Expanded concordance capabilities
- Expanded ability to interlinearize multilingual texts
- Enhanced support of variants and complex forms
- And many more
Related links of interest
- Get SIL FieldWorks version 6.0
- Official conference Web site for eLex 2009
- SIL FieldWorks for language and culture research (January 2008 media release)
- Semantic domain-oriented dictionaries
- SIL software catalog
- SIL Open Source License