http://linguistlist.org Latest Software Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:04 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1030.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1030.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Dear all, we are releasing STEPS, a graph-based parser implemented in Python for basic and enhanced Universal Dependencies. STEPS currently obtains state-of-the-art results on UD treebanks of Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hindi, Italian, Latvian, and Russian. (More details in our Arxiv pre-print here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.12699.pdf) STEPS is free software released under the AGPLv3 license. The source code, as well as download instructions for pre-trained models for http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1029.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1029.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z We are excited to announce the release of the macOS version of CLOx, a free application developed by the University of Washington Sociolinguistics Laboratory. Using Apple's automatic speech recognition engine, CLOx orthographically transcribes sociolinguistic or other recorded audio interviews in a format amenable to linguistic analysis. The macOS version can be downloaded from the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1523222131?pt=118058216&ct=LingList&mt=8. The web version, wh http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-45.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-45.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Dear Colleagues, We have just released a toolkit for running controlled psycholinguistic experiments using instant messaging. The toolkit runs as a bot on the Telegram network. Participants connect to the toolkit using the Telegram app on their mobile phones. Since all messages between participants are mediated via the toolkit, data is instantly available for analysis - there is no need for participants to send in their data. The toolkit allows high levels of experimental control: particip http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3774.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3774.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Dear all, It’s my pleasure to announce a new stable release of phonfieldwork v.0.0.10 package for R that just passed rOpenSci review. The main goal of this package is to provide a huge variety of tools that can be used by phonetic researchers in the field and in laboratories. The package helps to collect, annotate and convert different sound annotation formats to tables. It is also possible to create sound viewers (like [this](https://ropensci.github.io/phonfieldwork/additional/stimuli_viewer http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3638.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-3638.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z [with apologies for cross-posting] I am thrilled to be releasing the Kurdish Language Processing Toolkit (https://github.com/sinaahmadi/klpt). KLPT is a natural language processing (NLP) toolkit in Python for the Kurdish language, a less-resourced Indo-European language which is spoken by 20-30 million speakers. This initial version comes with four core modules for the Sorani and Kurmanji dialects of Kurdish, namely preprocess, stem, transliterate and tokenize, and addresses basic language http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2318.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2318.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z We are pleased to announce that a new version of SignStream® (MacOS software for linguistic annotation of visual language data) is now available, with many new features, performance enhancements and bug fixes. If you plan to (continue to) use SignStream® in the future, it is very important that you download this new version. See http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/SignStream/3/ Please note, however, that SignStream® is not yet compatible with Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina). We are working on that and will anno http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2116.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-2116.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing; https://trolling.uit.no/) is a CoreTrustSeal certified repository for open data, available to all subfields of linguistics. TROLLing is open to linguists around the world for upload and download, and is curated by trained linguists at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, who check the relevance of the data, the quality and comprehensiveness of the metadata, and the description and format of data files. For more information abo http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1880.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1880.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Dear all, I have written a small tool that I think can be of interest to the Linguistics community: OT Solver. The project can be found at: https://sr.ht/~emvigo/ot-solver/ OT Solver automatically calculates the optimal candidate in an Optimality Theoretic grammar framework (Prince & Smolensky, 1994). The user provides an OT tableau specifying the violations of each candidate for each constraint and OT Solver outputs which candidate Eval predicts as grammatical. This is a tool meant for http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1679.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1679.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z The English WordNet team is happy to announce the 2020 release of the English WordNet. English WordNet is a fork of the Princeton WordNet and is fully backwards-compatible with the Princeton WordNet. This version of WordNet includes ~15,000 improvements over the previous version including the addition of over 2,000 new synsets with over 3,000 lemmas. The English WordNet is available in three formats * WordNet LMF * RDF based on the OntoLex-Lemon model * Princeton WordNet Database File http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1678.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1678.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Dear Linguists, We kindly invite you to take part in our User Research Survey, which is part of the user research conducted for the European H2020 project TRIPLE (https://www.gotriple.eu/). The questionnaire is specifically targeted at researchers and academics from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at any stage of their careers - from Master student to full professor - who are currently working in a European country. The TRIPLE project was launched on 7 October 2019. It will be http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1677.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1677.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Interface of feature visualisation from PHOIBLE and WALS This app is a minimalistic yet practical interface which helps the visualisation of features from the PHOIBLE project and the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS). The app has two visualisation components. The first one is a world map which shows the feature distribution of languages. A bar chart is combined with the map to help observe feature counts. The second component is the network visualisation. It helps observe relations http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1676.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1676.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Owing to the nature of Indian Abugida writing systems and the tendency for their component consonantals to form conjunct consonants, computers and the Unicode consortium have been slow in catching up, and, mainly resort to the use of halantam characters to represent conjunct consonants; which, while being functional rather miss the point of Indic writing systems. However, my Devawriter Pro (available, cross-platform, for Linux, Windows and Macintosh) leverages a font that stores a complete http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1675.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1675.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z We would like to draw your attention to a new release of the Database for Spoken German (''Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch'', DGD): https://dgd.ids-mannheim.de The DGD is the corpus platform of the Archive for Spoken German (AGD) at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS). It gives access to 34 corpora documenting the variation of spoken German and its use in interaction, such as: * The Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German: FOLK * The GeWiss corpus of spoken aca http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1674.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/31/31-1674.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Dear Colleagues, As we all know, when it comes to teaching technical subjects, practice makes perfect. With this aim in mind, I've developed an app that helps students learning logic to practice their skills. The app is effectively a propositional logic calculator. It's completely free and does not collect any information from its users. It can be installed on the iOS (iPhones and iPads), Android (phones, tablets, etc.) and Windows (desktops, laptops, tablets, xbox ones) platforms. Here are t http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4652.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4652.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z The University of Tokyo has launched a new MOOC on EMI, entitled "English Academia 3: English Medium Instruction in Higher Education" (EA3: https://utokyo-ea.com/en). EA3 covers a wide range of topics shown below: Module 1: Introduction Module 2: What is EMI? Module 3: Where is EMI conducted? Module 4: Why is EMI conducted? Module 5: How is EMI conducted? Module 6: Teachers Module 7: Students Module 8: Administrators and Universities Module 9: Policymakers Module 10: Conclusion http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3540.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3540.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Release of the DSM-parameter-analysis GitHub repository Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the release of the GitHub repository connected to the PhD dissertation of András Dobó: Dobó, A.: A comprehensive analysis of the parameters in the creation and comparison of feature vectors in distributional semantic models for multiple languages. University of Szeged (2019) http://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/10120/1/AndrasDoboThesis2019.pdf The GitHub repository, including the source code http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2610.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2610.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z VSTENO (Vector Shorthand Tool with Enhanced Notational Options) is a PHP program that transcribes normal text to shorthand text. Shorthand models can be defined via a scripting language, so VSTENO is not bound to any shorthand system in particular, but let's you define your own tokens and rules to transcribe any text to your shorthand system. The program comes with definitions for the System Stolze-Schrey in German and Spanisch. The program and documentation are mainly in german, but if somebody http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2313.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2313.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z In the 12-Jun-2018 edition of this forum: https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-2517.html I announced the release of the latest version of Phono, a software program for constructing models of regular historical sound change. In March of this year, the web address given in that original announcement became inoperative, and it was necessary to migrate Phono to a new location on the Web. The new Web address is https://langnhist.weebly.com/phonoTOC.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2259.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2259.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z The DALI and NIEUW projects would like to announce the second release of the Phrase Detectives corpus (Poesio et al, 2019), a corpus of documents annotated with anaphoric (coreference) information collected using the Phrase Detectives Game-With-A-Purpose http://www.phrasedetectives.org as part of an ongoing collaboration between Queen Mary University, the University of Essex, the Linguistic Data Consortium, and other partners to collect linguistic resources via games-with-a-purpose and cit http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1568.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1568.html 2021-03-21T23:49:14Z Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the release of the DinaVmouv base, which is an annotated lexicon of motion verbs in French. It includes more than a thousand of items and is freely available at: http://redac.univ-tlse2.fr/lexicons/dinaVmouv.html The lexicon is in the form of an interactive spreadsheet allowing you to filter and/or to sort the data, organized in ten columns. In addition to the list of French motion verbs, the DinaVmouv base provides a minimal semantic descripti