Linguistics Computing Resources on the Internet

A topically organized list of resources on the Internet that pertain to linguistics computing.

General Information on Computing and Linguistics

Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide, ed. by John M. Lawler and Helen Aristar Dry
- Chapter 6: Software for Doing Field Linguistics
Notes for the computer assisted language worker, by Nick Thieberger
Linguistic Data Consortium
- Linguistic Annotation describes tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations.
- Linguistic Exploration describes resources for language documentation and linguistic exploration.

LinguistX Platform is a fast, comprehensive suite of multilingual text services.
Lingsoft, linguistic software company in Helsinki, Finland
Conexor's analysers for English, taggers and parsers
NLP at Microsoft Research

Computers and Writing Systems
SIL Fonts, Font Utilities, and Keyboard Utilities
- Charis A serif, proportionally-spaced font optimized for readability in long printed documents
- Doulos SIL Extended Latin, Cyrillic, and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Unicode font for Windows and Macintosh
- Gentium Extended Latin, Greek, and IPA Unicode font for Windows and Macintosh
Legacy (non-Unicode) IPA fonts

SIL Encore IPA fonts for Windows and Macintosh
IPAPhon for Windows and Macintosh
PalPhon IPA font based on Palatino for Macintosh [Download 451K, 18-Feb-92]
TechPhonetic IPA font based on GoudyOldStyle for Macintosh [Download 305K, 10-May-91]

Links to IPA fonts via the IPA
Fonts in CyberSpace, SIL's guide to finding fonts on the Internet
Linguist's Software, fonts for the whole world
Arboreal, a font for creating syntactic trees, Cascadilla Press. Arboreal is available for Macs and Windows
LogicTimes, Times with Greek letters and logic symbols (Mac)
MtScript, the Multext multilingual text editor (Sun Sparc)
Circle Noetic Services, linguistic products (hyphenation, spell checker, word lists, etc.)

Annotation Graph Toolkit, a suite of software components for building tools for annotating linguistic signals, time-series data which documents any kind of linguistic behavior (e.g., audio, video). Intended audience: developers
Praat: doing phonetics by computer
Sable standard for speech synthesis markup
Signalyze signal processing software for Macintosh
SpeechLab facilities via the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Alvey Natural Language Tools
Computational Morphology and Phonology (SIL)
Phono version 4.1, a Windows software tool for developing and testing models of regular historical sound change
Special Interest Group on Computational Phonology (SIGPHON)
SIL software:
- PC-KIMMO, processor for two-level phonology and morphology, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh and UNIX
- AMPLE morphological parser for MS-DOS, Macintosh and UNIX

Alvey Natural Language Tools
Apple Pie Parser, a bottom-up probabilistic chart parser
Ergo Linguistic Technologies, English parsing software
Gramglos, a glossary of generative grammar (MS-DOS)
Download file: gramglos.zip [129K, 11-Sep-94]
Grammar and Trees, Macintosh HyperCard stack to draw trees of phrase structure grammars
Download file: grammarandtrees1.0.hqx [132K, 17-Jan-94]
Grammar Laboratories for the Macintosh
Download files:
- CG Laboratory [475K, 24-Mar-95]
- PATR Laboratory [488K, 24-Mar-95]
- PSG Laboratory [469K, 17-Dec-94]
- DCG Laboratory [493K, 24-Mar-95]
Link Grammar
PC-PATR a unification-based syntactic parser for MS-DOS, Window, Macintosh, and UNIX
System to write and test Unification-based Grammar
Download file: gfulab15.zip [131K, 16-Nov-93]

Concordance programs
- CONC, a concordance generator for Macintosh
- Concorder, a concordance package for the Macintosh
- Corpus Wizard, concordancer for Windows
- FreeText concordance program for Macintosh
  Download file: free-text-103.hqx, [235K]
- Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) and Micro-OCP
- MicroConcord for multilingual corpora (MS-DOS)
- MultiConcord: the Lingua Multilingual Parallel Concordancer for Windows
- WordCruncher information and WordCruncher QuickGuide
Corpus Linguistics at University of Birmingham
Emdros, a text database engine for analyzed or annotated text
Hyperbase (in French)
IT, Interlinear Text Processor for MS-DOS and Macintosh
Multext, Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora
Paai's text utilities for UNIX
TACT, Text Analysis Computing Tools--a text-analysis and retrieval system for MS-DOS. See also TACT Overview.
Text Analysis Tools and Techniques via Oxford's CTI Centre for Textual Studies
TEXTPACK: a system for computer-aided content analysis
Texts and Tools at LETRS
WLIST, word list generator with statistics (MS-DOS)
Download file: wlist11.zip [28K, 30-Oct-93]
Also available here: wlist11.zip [29K]
Word Count, Freq, Syllables, Readability
Download file: wc14.zip [12K, 17-Jan-94]
Xerox POS tagger

Algorithm for identifying related words across languages
Download file: cognate.zip [18K, 9-Dec-91]
PHONO, tool for developing and testing models of regular sound change (MS-DOS)
Download file: phono.zip [110K, 7-May-96]
Software tools for lexicostatistics
Download file: glotto02.zip [169K, 25-May-94]
Wordsurv, analyzes and compares dialect word lists (Windows, Palm)
A World of Words, Macintosh HyperCard stacks about history of Indo-European
Download file: aworldofwords.cpt.hqx [628K, 19-Jan-94]

AWK, a pattern-scanning text processing language
BiTrans for MS-DOS will translate a text written in any transliteration system (e.g. Chinese written in pinyin) into almost any other system (e.g. the Giles-Wade system), provided that it is given the necessary translation rules.
Download file: bitrans2.zip [70K, 24-Oct-95]
Emacs, programmable text editor
Icon, a high-level, general-purpose programming language with a large repertoire of features for processing data structures and character strings.
SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL Information
SPITBOL, for non-numeric computing