[Corpora-List] lexicography software

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Daer Marcin,

leading systems in use for 'industrial scale' dictionary preparation are

1) IDM's DPS (idm.fr) as used by OUP, CUP, Collins.  Assumes multiple
editors connected over web to centralised database.

2) there's a system called Pubman which CUP used to use, now also owned by
IDM

3) Tshwanelex, widely used, mainly based in South Africa, see
http://tshwanedje.com/tshwanelex/ .  Supports users working in a distributed
way, but only to a limited degree - no centralised database with built-in
updating (unless I'm out of date)

4) iLex - its author, Jens Erlandsen, has a long track record.
http://www.emp.dk/ilexweb/index.jsp?toc=100000025

<http://www.emp.dk/ilexweb/index.jsp?toc=100000025>5) ABBYY with their
system Lingvo have recently moved into the area, turning what they've been
using for years into a product.  It's for both dict compiling and dict
viewing.

Adam


2011/1/20 Marcin Miłkowski <milek_pl at o2.pl>

> Dear Piotr, and other users,
>
> do you know of any web-based system that would be at least as powerful as
> LexiquePro? I hope it would help multiple linguists to work on the same
> dictionary at the same time without syncing problems.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Marcin
>
> W dniu 2011-01-17 09:48, Piotr Bański pisze:
>
>> 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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