User:Hannes Hirzel

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 Oct. 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.pdf

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

Links

http://www.gillbt.org

http://www.spw.uzh.ch/afrling/aliakan/ "ALI Akan", Internet based Akan/Twi course, 16 units; update in progress as of 2012