Welcome to FieldWorks, the dictionary creation software designed for you to document your language, understand it better, and publish what you learn!
FieldWorks Language Explorer™ (FLEx) is a comprehensive tool that allows you to create a dictionary for your language by collecting texts, words, and cultural information. It is widely used for documenting and preserving low-resource languages and cultures.
With FieldWorks, you can compile texts, analyze grammar, and incorporate cultural details, creating a robust dictionary database that supports multiple languages and scripts. The software simplifies the task of interlinearizing text and analyzing grammar, and it has built-in features for publishing your dictionary or grammatical analysis. The WYSIWYG Dictionary view shows your formatted dictionary entries just as they will appear in a publication.
FieldWorks isn’t just a dictionary tool; it’s a comprehensive language solution designed to foster communication, preserve cultural heritage, and support language development in your community.
Beyond research, FieldWorks enables you topublish your dictionary in both electronic and print formats, to exchange data withELAN, and to export data in a range of formats. You can build and broaden your dictionary with tools likeRapid Word Collection, and even assist in creating spell-checking databases. Collaboration is built-in, allowing multiple users to contribute to a shared lexicon.
Best of all, FLEx is offered under an open-source license, ensuring it’s free for anyone to use, with the added benefit of a supportive community for any assistance you might need.
Equip yourself with powerful tools to analyze language data efficiently. The software understands linguistic intricacies like prefixes, suffixes, and infixes, allowing you to manually or automatically parse words.
Utilize built-in terminology to describe the building blocks of words and sentences, generating a full grammar description based on your input.
Rapidly develop a semantically categorized glossary with the support for Rapid Word Collection, helping you build a thesaurus, and later a full dictionary!
"after converting a long standing toolbox project over to FLEx, the user (a more senior user) gave out a couple Oohh's and AAhh's when I showed her around FLEx. She seems quite happy to be in FLEx."
Problems with the program should be sent toflex_errors@sil.org. We also have a Google Group of experienced FLEx users who are glad to help. For more information, go to theHelp and Training page
This software is free to use, modify and redistribute according to the terms of theGNU Lesser General Public License.
Contribute to this project onGithub!
