Linguistics Software

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
• Linguistic Data Consortium

Commercial Research and Development Sites

• 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

Software Archives

• AI Repository at CMU
• Natural Language Software Registry
• Software via LINGUIST
• UMichigan Linguistics Archive

Software Tools

Fonts and Multilingual Resources

• 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.)

Data Management

• askSam, freeform information manager for MS-DOS and Windows.
• Shoebox (Windows, Macintosh)
• Toolbox Unicode compatible upgrade to Shoebox (Windows)

Speech Analysis and Phonetics

• 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

Phonology and Morphology

• 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

Grammar, Syntax, Semantics

• 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

Lexical Tools

See also Lexical Resources on the Internet.

• Lexical FreeNet - finite relation expression network

Text Analysis and Corpus Linguistics

See also Text Resources on the Internet.

• Concordance programs
  • CONC, a concordance generator for 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)
  • WordCruncher information and WordCruncher QuickGuide
• 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
• 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
• 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]

Translation

• AltaVista Translation Service using Systran Translation Software
• Ergane, multilingual translation dictionary for Windows
• Natural Language Translation Sepcialist Group, British Computer Society
• Translation Experts Ltd., interactive translation software

Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Dialectology

• PHONO, tool for developing and testing models of regular sound change (MS-DOS)
• Download file: phono.zip [110K, 7-May-96]
• A World of Words, Macintosh HyperCard stacks about history of Indo-European
  Download file: aworldofwords.cpt.hqx [628K, 19-Jan-94]

Text Processing Languages and Utilities

• AWK, a pattern-scanning text processing language
• 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