ERIC Number: EJ1458182
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 23
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WordSpinner: Developing a Tool to Convert Plain-Text Lexicon Files into Dictionary Webpages
Caroline Jones; Jesse Tran; Eleanor Jorgensen; Romi Hill; Patricia Ellis; Jane Simpson; Felicity Meakins; Ben Foley; Marcel Reverter-Rambaldi; Gari Tudor-Smith; Paul Williams; Clair Hill; Mark Richards
Language Documentation & Conservation, v18 p109-131 2024
Dictionaries for under-resourced languages are, like other dictionaries, traditionally in hard-copy form. Electronic online formats can improve access to dictionaries for under-resourced languages. To make it easier to create online dictionaries with linked sound and image files, starting from a Toolbox file or similar backslash-formatted dictionary text file, a new online tool, WordSpinner, was created. It was used and iteratively improved over several years in order to convert backslash lexicon text files into formatted dictionary output pages, with five Indigenous languages of Australia. In various stages of dictionary creation, checking, and formatting, the online tool was revised to meet user needs. The resulting version of WordSpinner is another free option now available to users for creating online dictionaries.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Programming, Dictionaries, Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Austro Asiatic Languages, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites
National Foreign Language Resources Center at University of Hawaii. Department of Linguistics, UHM Moore Hall 569, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. Fax: 808-956-9166; e-mail: ldc@hawaii.edu; Web site: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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