WordSpinner: Developing a tool to convert plain-text lexicon files into dictionary webpages

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dc.creatorCaroline Jones
dc.creatorJesse Tran
dc.creatorEleanor Jorgensen
dc.creatorRomi Hill
dc.creatorPatricia Ellis
dc.creatorJane Simpson
dc.creatorFelicity Meakins
dc.creatorBen Foley
dc.creatorMarcel Reverter-Rambaldi
dc.creatorGari Tudor-Smith
dc.creatorPaul Williams
dc.creatorClair Hill
dc.creatorMark Richards
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-30T03:24:50Z
dc.date.available2024-08-30T03:24:50Z
dc.date.copyright2024
dc.date.issued2024-08
dc.description.abstractDictionaries for under-resourced languages are, like other dictionaries, traditionally in hard-copy form. Electronic online formats can improve access to dictionaries for under-resourced languages. To make it easier to create online dictionaries with linked sound and image files, starting from a Toolbox file or similar backslash-formatted dictionary text file, a new online tool, WordSpinner, was created. It was used and iteratively improved over several years in order to convert backslash lexicon text files into formatted dictionary output pages, with five Indigenous languages of Australia. In various stages of dictionary creation, checking, and formatting, the online tool was revised to meet user needs. The resulting version of WordSpinner is another free option now available to users for creating online dictionaries.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.formatArticle
dc.format.extent23
dc.identifier.citationJones, Caroline, Jesse Tran, Eleanor Jorgensen, Romi Hill, Patricia Ellis, Jane Simpson, Felicity Meakins, Ben Foley, Marcel Reverter-Rambaldi, Gari Tudor-Smith, Paul Williams, Clair Hill, Mark Richards. 2024. WordSpinner: Developing a tool to convert plain-text lexicon files into dictionary webpages. Language Documentation & Conservation 18: 109-131.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/74788
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.titleWordSpinner: Developing a tool to convert plain-text lexicon files into dictionary webpages
dcterms.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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prism.endingpage131
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage109
prism.volume18

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