[Lexicog] TLex Suite 2010, tlTerm 2010 and tlCorpus 2010 released

[David Joffe]

FYI. (Apologies for cross-posting.)

Kind regards,

 - David Joffe

Please see our website (tshwanedje.com) for more details on 
information in this news release.

October 14, 2010: TLex Suite 2010, tlTerm 2010 and tlCorpus 2010 
Released

The latest version of our widely recognized dictionary and 
terminology compilation software, TLex Suite 2010, is now available. 
This is the fifth major release of our software line, and includes 
TLex (TshwaneLex), tlCorpus 2010 and tlTerm 2010. Our Electronic 
Publishing (CD-ROM/Web) software has also been updated extensively. 
See below for a more detailed summary of new features. tlDatabase 
2010 is also now available, which brings the power of the TLex core 
editor to any type of data.

TLex Suite 2010 includes tlCorpus and tlTerm, or these may be 
purchased separately. (Special offer: All customers who purchase 
tlCorpus 2010 (Standalone) will receive a free upgrade to tlCorpus 
2011 next year.)

Translation Services

We offer professional translation services for all major world 
languages, as well as proofreading, editing, transcription and 
localization. You can use our website form to quickly get
quotations.

New Localizations

tlReader is now available in Polish, Chinese (thanks to Bohan for 
these), French, and Spanish. TLex is also now available in Irish 
(thanks to Kevin Scannell for this beta localization).

tlTranslate Translation Memory

Coming soon, tlTranslate 2010 Translation Memory Software: We are 
currently soliciting beta testers, please see our website if you 
want to sign up. This Computer-Assisted Translation product supports 
the industry standards TMX and XLIFF.

Other News

New Oxford Zulu - English / English - Zulu Bilingual Dictionary: In 
partnership with Oxford University Press, we successfully compiled 
this new fully corpus-driven dictionary (De Schryver, G-M; ISBN 
978-0-19-576554-0). The dictionary is already selling well. 
Naturally, it was created using TLex.

New Electronic Zulu - English Dictionary: This dictionary (which is 
incidentally unrelated to the Oxford one) includes advanced Zulu 
compound-word "smart search" technology, and, as with all our 
electronic dictionaries, also integrates with Microsoft Word. The 
dictionary is available from our website.

Just a reminder, most of our products are now available on the Apple 
Mac platform.

Summary of New Features

New Features Of TLex Include: A specialised new "auto-sound/image 
linking" tool allows you to rapidly link thousands of sound, image 
or video files to their corresponding entries all at once, based on 
configurable naming conventions. Other new features include video 
file support, a 'show whitespace' tool, word count tool, shortcut 
keys for Lua script-based "macros", a 'field mask' that allows you 
to easily hide selected fields for exporters, new error checks, 
extensive and detailed new statistics functionality, and new 
filters. The RTF export includes a new option to split the output 
into alphabetic sections. Character Info now includes a new 'search 
by name' field. There are new data manipulation tools such as a 
'split field' function that allows you to split attributes at a 
given text string (e.g. comma) into multiple elements. The 
integrated Corpus (F6) tool includes many improvements, as well as 
new features such as a 'wordlist' command and new sorting options.

Our Electronic Publishing systems have also seen major improvements, 
and have been used to publish some major CD-ROM and Web 
dictionaries, including the prestigious new online dictionary website 
for the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal ('The Dictionary of 
the Afrikaans Langage'; a large multi-volume work spanning nearly 
200,000 entries and over 8,000 pages in print), and Pharos 
Dictionaries Online, which consists of some 580,000 entries across 
20 titles. These projects also demonstrate that 
TLex can readily cope with both very large databases, and highly 
complex data. Amongst the latest new features are advanced 
multi-title support, search query scoring/ranking, search 
auto-completion 'suggester', more advanced user and subscription 
management and IP-based authentication, and advanced search queries 
with boolean expressions, and support for cellphone-based versions.

tlCorpus 2010 is fully internationalized, can intelligently take 
advantage of modern multi-core computers to get the best possible 
performance out of them, and is also capable of handling very large 
files/corpora. It also features functionality for auto-detection of 
languages and encodings to help simplify setup. tlCorpus is also 
BCP-47-aware. It can also intelligently adapt its sentence-detection 
routines based on the detected language (e.g. supporting Greek 
end-sentence punctuation rules).

tlTerm 2010 includes support for the latest standards-based BCP 47 
language codes, and also includes an importer for TBX (TermBase 
eXchange format) files.



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