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Hannes Hirzel
MEE ETHZ, MBA Univ. of Zurich, Researcher at GILLBT, the Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation.
Dictionary development for Ghanaian Languages.
Email: dictionaries_gillbt (at) gillbt.org
Participation in:
- LKB workshop in 2005 / Trondheim
- Toolbox-TypeCraft Workshop Legon 2009
- Computational Lexicography in the NUFU / University of Ghana project
- Akan Dictionary Project (Trondheim / Zurich project)
Interest:
- Computational methods in
- Linguistics,
- Language documentation and
- Lexicography.
Work in progress as of Dec. 2012:
- Update of Converting_a_Toolbox_lexical_database_to_LKB_format
- How to create a XHTML word list with a Toolbox export process
- Keyboards
Notes
Structure of dictionaries / lexica
http://www.sil.org/computing/shoebox/MDF_AppendixB.html#headword_and_structure
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/expl2000/papers/bell/bell.html
http://multimedia.ids-mannheim.de/mediawiki/web/index.php/Hauptseite
http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:446072:8/component/escidoc:446071/MDF2LMF.pdf
http://www.casl.umd.edu/sites/default/files/Maxwell08_StandardsforLexical.
Word lists
Using computers in Linguistics
Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide Helen Aristar Dry (Editor), John Lawler (Editor)
June 26, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0415167922 | ISBN-13: 978-0415167925
Using Computers in Linguistics provides a non-technical introduction
http://www.amazon.com/Using-Computers-Linguistics-Practical-Guide/dp/0415167922
In particular chapter 5 about Unix.
http://www.emich.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/aristar-dry_h.html
Additional configuration of a standard Ubuntu 12.04 installation
In a terminal window execute
sudo apt-get install wine1.4-i386 sudo apt-get install mercurial sudo apt-get install xsltproc sudo apt-get install meld sudo apt-get install tasksel sudo tasksel install lamp-server sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Links
http://www.spw.uzh.ch/afrling/aliakan/ "ALI Akan", Internet based Akan/Twi course, 16 units; update in progress as of 2012