[Corpora-List] lexicography software

[Mike Maxwell]

SIL's FLEx (Fieldworks Language Explorer) is designed to combine tools 
for lexicography and text (particularly interlinear text).  As its name 
suggests, it is intended for field linguists working in a language that 
they're trying to analyze (and usually learn).

One implication of this use case is that lexicon sizes tend to be 
relatively small (and I'm not sure how well FLEx would scale up to large 
lexicons).  Another is that the morphology of the target language may 
not be well understood, and so FLEx provides tools for developing 
morphological descriptions, and doing so in such a way that they can be 
used for interlinear text analysis using built-in parsers.  Another 
implication is that the writing system may not be "correct" from the 
beginning, indeed the phonology may not even be known from the 
beginning; so FLEx provides tools for modifying the writing system, 
including changing the spelling of all words in a batch mode.

In sum, FLEx is intended for lexicon building and other tasks, in a 
field situation, for languages where the linguist does not start out 
with an accepted analysis.

    Mike Maxwell

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