33.2149, FYI: Treemendous: syntactic (and other) tree creation tool for the blind

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2149. Mon Jun 27 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2149, FYI: Treemendous: syntactic (and other) tree creation tool for the blind

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 04:59:44
From: Bill Dengler [codeofdusk at gmail.com]
Subject: Treemendous: syntactic (and other) tree creation tool for the blind

 
I'm a totally blind recent graduate of Swarthmore College in Philadelphia,
from which I've received a linguistics minor. At the start of my studies, I
took an introductory syntax course, but found the creation and review of tree
diagrams very difficult. I'm also a computer science (CS) major, and found
trees in CS courses difficult to access as well.

To make trees easier to access, I've developed an open-source tool,
Treemendous, that I hope will be helpful to other blind students and
practitioners. Treemendous allows the user to create and edit trees in an
accessible, linear format that should be familiar to screen reader users.
Users can also convert trees into LaTeX (Qtree), Graphviz, and png format.

Treemendous can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/codeofdusk/treemendous

I hope the list finds Treemendous at least interesting if not helpful!
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Syntax





 



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