Software

[Garry Forger]

Let me add some information to the post Sue Penfield made, with the link 
to the Southwest Thesaurus http://www.swt.arizona.edu . We had a small 
grant to create this several years ago, unfortunately we have not been 
updating this but it is still on the web.

The software that was used is called Multites http://www.multites.com/ 
and is commercially available. I think you can download a trial version 
from their website.

There is a short paper on this project at http://ltc.arizona.edu/swtpdf.pdf

I had mentioned this to Sue because she was telling me that having a 
dictionary that is sorted alphabetically was not the best solution for 
some groups. With this software you can have terms sorted 
alphabetically, but you can sort by other creteria, such as 
relationships between terms, terms listed by associated areas such as 
Geographic Area or Fuana as examples from our thesaurus.

The categories would be determined when you are creating the thesaurus 
and would be unique to whatever works for your set of terms.

The software also has multiple language possiblities so that you could 
relate terms to each other that are in several languages.  This has not 
been done for our project but the software enables this if you want to 
use it.

I hope this information is helpful.

Garry Forger



Susan Penfield wrote:

> Hi,
> Yesterday I mentioned that I have been looking at a new software which 
> might be usable
> for creating thematic dictionaries (a very user-friendly option) . I 
> would like some others to take a look
> to see what they think of it . Check out www.swt.arizona.edu 
> <http://www.swt.arizona.edu>.
> Best,
> Susan
> 
> -- 
> Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
> 
> Department of English
> Affiliate faculty: Department of Linguistics
> and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program
> American Indian Language Development Institute
> Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836

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