WordSurv
WordSurv is being developed through a partnership between the Computer and Systems Science Department at Taylor University and SIL International.
A typical language survey may involve determining linguistic relationships through the comparison of word lists. WordSurv is designed to aid in this task. It functions in three main areas:
- entry and maintenance of word lists and cognate decisions,
- computation of lexicostatistic and phonostatistic measures of similarity, and
- output of data and results in various formats.
WordSurv also supports the COMPASS algorithm to aid in comparative reconstruction.
PalmSurv may be used for word list transcription into a PalmOS handheld computer.
WordSurv 6.0
New Features
- Unicode character encoding
- Wordlist merging
- Streamlined WordSurv 2.5 imports
- More about this version
Requirements
- Windows 2000 or XP
- Windows 2000: requires Windows Installer 2.0 (or later). In most cases, you can tell which version (if any) you have by opening a DOS window and entering "msiexec." You will either get an error message, in which case it is likely you don't have any version of Windows Installer, or else you will get a message box which tells you (among other things) which version you have.
- Windows XP: already has Windows Installer included.
- Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
- Service Pack 1 for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 recommended
- Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) Version 2.0 or later
- Tavultesoft Keyman to enter IPA and non-Roman text into WordSurv via the keyboard
Download and Install
- Download one of the following:
- Full Install includes WordSurv and everything needed for a computer to meet the requirements (108 MB, MD5 hash: 15089efb9f022223210d31ce7f22d7aa)
- Save to a temporary location
- Run Full Install.exe to unzip
- WordSurv only for a computer that already meets the requirements (5.1 MB, MD5 hash: f115902e986972f900f9afb9c5d75f31)
- Save to a temporary location
- Run WordSurv Only.exe to unzip
- Full Install includes WordSurv and everything needed for a computer to meet the requirements (108 MB, MD5 hash: 15089efb9f022223210d31ce7f22d7aa)
- Double-click Setup.exe.
- Follow the screen instructions.