[Corpora-List] lexicography software

[Piotr Bański]

Dear Albert,

If your colleague needs a simple but well-tested free tool that handles
all of what you mention below, then there is also Lexique Pro.[1] It is
in a way a descendant of the lexicographic profile of the well-known
Toolbox from SIL.[2] My students of intro to lexicography have been
quite happy with Lexique Pro and I have had practically no requests for
help in setting it up and using it. It exports, a.o., into LIFT, an XML
lexicon interchange format, so your colleague should find it easy to
move to a more robust Dictionary Writing System if he decides that LP is
too limiting. But from what I read below, a little tool may be just the
right tool for your colleague's needs.

Unless he uses Linux, which makes things slightly more difficult, but
fortunately there exists a version of FLEx for Linux.[3] (You need to
follow the instructions in the wiki in order to install it.)

Cheers,

  Piotr

[1] http://www.lexiquepro.com/
[2] http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
[3] http://linux.lsdev.sil.org/wiki/index.php/FieldWorks

On 2011-01-15 16:32, Albert Gatt wrote:
> Dear Corpora users
> 
> A colleague of mine asked me to forward the following request. He is
> currently engaged in some lexicographic work and is looking for a
> software package that would facilitate the creation and structuring of
> lexical entries. Ideally, this would allow the creation of lemmas with
> head words, part of speech info, variants, glosses etc, while making it
> easy to maintain and update a dictionary. There are a number of such
> packages out there, but we would like to ask whether you've had any
> experience with this kind of software, and whether you'd have any
> recommendations. Any kind of license and/or pricing is being considered.
> 
> Many thanks,
>  
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Albert Gatt
> Institute of Linguistics
> Centre for Communication Technology Rm 404A
> University of Malta
> Tal-Qroqq Msida MSD2080
> Malta

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