Archive for Verna Stutzman

DLS Newsletter – February 2020

Online training materials for Dictionary-making and Lexicography

DLS has begun developing an online course to teach Dictionary-making and Lexicography principles. Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx) and Webonary.org are the featured applications for the training materials.

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DLS Newsletter – September 2019

ALT 2019

I had the opportunity to attend the 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology at the University of Pavia, Italy on 4-6 September 2019 and was able to introduce many people to the resources and products SIL International makes available for language work.

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DLS Newsletter – April 2019

Publishing Interlinearized Texts Online

Introducing Kratylos.org*
Kratylos.org has provided a site for publishing interlinearized texts. "Kratylos is a facility to let researchers upload lexical and corpus datasets from FieldWorks, Praat, Elan and other software, and it lets researchers browse the results."* The researchers are happy for Webonary account holders to upload interlinearized texts to Kratylos and provide the link on their Webonary sites. You will need both a Webonary account and a Kratylos account...

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* Finkel, Raphael, and Daniel Kaufman. Kratylos. Computer software. Kratylos: Unified Linguistic Corpora from Diverse Data Sources. Version 2.0. University of Kentucky and Endangered Language Alliance, 1 June 2016. Web www.kratylos.org.

Gusilay People Celebrate Arrival of Their Dictionary

(March 2019) Senegal’s Gusilay people now have a dictionary, two years after an SIL-led Rapid Word Collection (RWC) workshop jump-started the project.

Launched just a few days before the end of 2018, the dictionary for the 20,000-plus Gusilay people features 9,000 entries, and marks the first time the language’s words have been extensively collected, written down, analyzed and published.

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Dictionary & Lexicography Services Newsletter – August 2018

This newsletter features the Djimini Rapid Word Collection workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, reminders to install the latest versions of new releases of tools for dictionary-making, and updates on the number of dictionaries published. Read newsletter.