System Quirk The System Quirk family of applications are designed to aid in the production and maintenance of texts and terminologies. These applications are of specific relevance to computational linguists and language engineers.
Apple Pie Parser MonoConc Pro 2.0 and MonoConc 1.5: Two concordance programs for linguists and other language researchers
Link Parser v3.0 A
syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar. Online demontration,
documentation, and downloadable software and API
Malaga
- A System for Automatic Language Analysis Malaga is a free (for non-commercial
purposes) development environment for morphologic and syntactic parsers.
It includes a compiler, an interpreter, a C API, a visualization tool,
a debugger, and examples.
PAPPI
A Free Principles-and-Parameters Parser for the Sun
Sparcstations. Written in Prolog. Sample implementation of GB for
English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, German and others.
InXight
LinguisX Commercial Content Analysis Software from a Xerox
Company.
QTAG P-O-S tagger QTAG
is a language independent stochastic parts-of-speech tagger. Implemented
as a client/server application in C and Java it should run on most platforms.
Freely available for academic research purposes.
Berg Soft Homepage 'Just as spoken' - The Tool for Phonetic Transcription Just as spoken is a tool for phonetic transcription. It allows you to insert phonetic symbols into your Winword-, Excel- and WordPerfect documents in a very easy way. All phonetic symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (Rev. 1996) are included in the program as TrueType fonts. Therefore you can use them in every Windows application
The Emu Speech Database System A system for managing collections of speech data which supports hierarchical labelling of utterances. Emu is freely available and supports a range of file formats.
KorNet 1.5 Semantic (associative) network programming system (described in Russian)
Language Engineering This is a new link: SIGNUM Cia. Ltda. providers of linguistic engineering and development of advanced spell checking, lexical and morphological support, hyphenation and fully inflecting thesaurus for the Spanish language
Lextools Lextools is a package of tools for creating weighted finite-state transducers from high-level linguistic descriptions.
Machina Sapiens Grammar
checker software for English, French and Spanish.
Saransk Interactive natural (Russian) language software (NLP) system to talk to IBM 360/370 OS utilities (described in Russian)
Kura Kura is a complete system for the handling of linguistic data, especially fieldwork data from small-corpus languages. It allows users to enter texts in any language, analyze those texts and bring the analyzed linguistic facts into relation with each other. Kura includes both a desktop application for easy handling of interlinear texts, lexica and other linguistic data, and a special-purpose webserver for the online presentation of the analyzed data.
Historical Software
Phono 3.3 a DOS-based
program for constructing models of regular historical sound change.
ETYMO ETYMO - a linguistical formula interpreter to simulate diacronic language evolution (examples for latin->spanish)
Caesar Machine Latin hypertext reader for De Bello Gallico, I - freeware for DOS and Windows
FrancoPhil Introduction to "FrenchClozePlus", a new (1999) tutorial for French: a hypertextual and JavaScripted Win95 program.
Higgins the phonetics tutor Interactive, multimedia teaching/learning software for practical phonetics (Win95/98). Video clips of the sounds of the IPA are accessed through an intuitive interface that permits easy comparison and practice. Also features self-record and quiz functions.
Reading Acceleration Machine Tachistoscope for flashing lines of text to the monitor screen at the exact rate desired.
Babylon A cool dictionary
from English to many languages, translates by a single click on the word
(no typing)
Bilingua Language Engineering Bilingua language engineering publishes Duplex translation support systems and other language software.
Dicionario da Lingua Portuguesa Online, Mais de 600.000 palavras pesquisaveis, Cerca de 235.000 definigues, expressues e frases-exemplo,Vocabulario ticnico e cientmfico, incluindo lixico das novas tecnologias,Informagco etimolsgica detalhada para mais de 83.000 vocabulos, Conjugagco verbal para cerca de 13.500 verbos
Ectaco Software Outsourcing and Multilingual TechnologiesEctaco Development Center offers outsourcing software development, multilingual web design, linguistic technologies, translation software, terminology databases, electronic dictionaries, e-commerce
KudoZ, Not really a dictionary; a very structured forum--with a point system--creates a "human dictionary." Over 8000 professional translators are now participating.