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Field Linguist's Toolbox

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Language Data Management and Analysis

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Toolbox is a data management and analysis tool for field linguists.
It is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing
and interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any
kind of data. Toolbox is free to download and use.

Toolbox is especially powerful for handling large corpora and
dictionaries. It can handle a corpus of over a million words, and a
dictionary of hundreds of thousands of words.

Although Toolbox is very powerful, it is designed to be easy to
learn. The user can start with a simple standard setup and gradually
add the use of more powerful features as desired. The Toolbox
downloads include a training package that is usable for self-paced
individual learning as well as for classroom teaching of Toolbox.

See the Online Tlingit Verb Dictionary for an example of a web
dictionary made with Toolbox.

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Full design flexibility

At heart, Toolbox is a text-oriented database management system
(DBMS) with added functionality designed to meet the needs of a field
linguist. The underlying DBMS offers full user flexibility in the
design of any type of database. But for ease of use, the Toolbox
package includes prepared database definitions for a typical
dictionary and text corpus.

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Browse view

The Toolbox DBMS offers powerful functionality like customized
sorting, multiple views of the same database, browse view to show
data in tabular form, and filtering to show subsets of a database. It
can handle any number of scripts in the same database. Each script
has its own font and sorting characteristics. While Unicode is
preferred, Toolbox can handle scripts in most legacy encoding
systems.

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Web dictionary

Toolbox also has powerful linguistic functionality. It includes a
morphological parser that can handle almost all types of
morphophonemic processes. It has a word formula component that allows
the linguist to describe all the possible affix patterns that occur
in words. It has a user-definable interlinear text generation system
which uses the morphological parser and lexicon to generate annotated
text. Interlinear text can be exported in a form suitable for use in
linguistic papers. Toolbox has export capabilities that can be used
to produce a publishable dictionary from a dictionary database.

A user writes: "I just want to to drop you a line to tell you - again
- how immensely grateful I and the small team I work with always are
for Toolbox and for your continued support of it, and of us users,
over all these years. I want to assure you, in particular, that we
are still very much actively using this amazing software to carry out
essential parts of old and new projects involving smaller or
endangered languages."

This software is free to use. It is developed and supported by people
from an SIL field entity.

Please consider a donation to support our work

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