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Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)
2019 Linguistic Institute – Colleen Fitzgerald
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Organization
● Overview of FLEx functions (and gaps)● A sampling of projects created using FLEx.● Resources● Snapshot of FLEx for lexical and text analysis● Hands on training in FLEx (laptops permitting)
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FLEx: What can you do with it?● Lexicon
○ Gather words & make dictionary○ Add audio, pictures, or video to entries○ Enter bound morphemes and identify allomorphy
● Texts and Words○ Transcribe stories and wordlists○ Gloss words and morphemes○ Analyze texts for interlinear presentation○ Concordances
● Grammar○ Generate a grammar sketch
● Notebook● List
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FLEx: What can’t you do with it?● Edit audio files (Audacity)● Annotate audio phonetically with text grids (Praat)● Create time-aligned transcriptions of audio (ELAN)● Create a visualization of the data
○ https://glossopticon.com/
○ https://towardsdatascience.com/data-visualization-for-extinct-and-language-
9cd75fe41da
○ http://wals.info/
○ http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
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Weaknesses of FLEx (in the opinion of some)
● Morphology that is not classic item-and-arrangement, like templates or truncation/subtractive morphology, among others.
● Ablaut or other internal changes among closely related paradigm members● Tone● …
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Sample Projects Made with FLEx
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Chahta AnumpaTosholi Himona: New Choctaw Dictionary(p. 250)
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Dictionary Committee. 2016. Chahta Anumpa Tosholi Himona: New Choctaw Dictionary. Durant, OK: Choctaw Print Services. http://www.choctawschool.com/media/369055/New%20Choctaw%20Dictionary.pdf
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Matsigenka [mcb] Texts, 2011 (version June 2013)
● From the Archives of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AILLA)
● Haroldo Vargas Pereira (Speaker, Translator), José Vargas Pereira (Speaker, Translator), Lev Michael (Researcher), Christine Beier (Researcher) and Zachary O’Hagan (Annotator). 2011. Matsigenka Texts, 2011 (version June 2013) (MCB001R001I001.pdf). Matsigenka Texts. The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, ailla.utexas.org. Access: public. PID ailla:119767. Accessed July 7, 2019.
● https://www.ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla:134948
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From page 20 of the Matsigenka texts (pdf file)
NB: AILLA entry notes: “This file is a PDF
generated from a XeLaTex base file that
was in turn generated by a Python script from an XML export of a corpus of texts
parsed using the Fieldworks Linguistic Explorer (FLEx) application. These texts
were written originally authored in Matsigenka by Haroldo Vargas Pereira
and José Vargas Pereira, with accompanying line-by-line free
translations into Spanish.
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Kagate/Syuba [SYW] language documentation● Archived at the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) and at Pacific and
Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
○ https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI971098
○ http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AH1● Gawne (2018) provides an overview of the entire corpus at time of deposit in a
journal article. She also wrote a short blog post: https://www.superlinguo.com/post/172973223170/new-open-access-publication-a-guide-to-the-syuba ).
Gawne, Lauren. 2018. An introduction to the Syuba (Kagate) online collection. Language Documentation & Conservation 12: 204-234. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24768
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FLEx database
● Archived as three files that are part of this collection:● Lauren Gawne (collector), 2009; Kagate (Nepal) (SUY1), Digital collection
managed by PARADISEC. [Open Access] DOI: 10.4225/72/56E976A071650
○ http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/SUY1/items/FLEX
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Overview of Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)
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Dictionary Edit View
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Dictionary View (printable as a PDF)
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Using your dictionary to create a grammar guide
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Grammar Sketch
● “Sample” language Kalaba, created by
SIL Fieldworks
● Source:
http://software.sil.org/fieldworks/resources/tutorial/grammar/sketch/
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Editing Texts and Wordlists
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Creating Bilingual and Interlinearized Texts
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Concordance
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Leftfield
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Leftfield
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Leftfield
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Centerfield
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Rightfield
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Rightfield
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Bleachers
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Extensions
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Kratylos
● “new online tool enabling linguists to share and analyze data” using XML versions output by FLEx and ELAN (from Endangered Languages Alliance website http://elalliance.org/programs/documentation/kratylos/ )
● https://www.kratylos.org/~kratylos/home.cgi
● Described in more detail in this journal article:
Kaufman, Daniel & Raphael Finkel. 2018. Kratylos: A tool for sharing interlinearized and lexical data in diverse formats. Language Documentation & Conservation 12. 124-146. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24765
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Webonary
● Publish the FLEx data set online as a web dictionary:● http://www.webonary.org/about-webonary/
● Pilot project for Cherokee can be viewed here:
○ https://languagetech.cherokee.org/word-list/
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Pathway
● A plug-in that enables printing of texts from FLEx in multiple kinds of formats (e-pub, PDF, for Android cell phones, online), and offers more extensive options for formatting for dictionary outputs.
○ https://software.sil.org/pathway/
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Dictionary App Builder● A dictionary app (for either Android or iOS) can be created through exporting
the lexicon from FLEx.
○ https://software.sil.org/dictionaryappbuilder/
● Note: While I have never used this software, there is a lot of interest in apps like this from many indigenous communities. Here are others out there:
○ http://www.fpcc.ca/language/FirstVoices/FirstVoices-Mobile.aspx
○ https://icldc6.weebly.com/talk-story-sessions--workshop-information.html
○ https://aildi.arizona.edu/
○ https://colang.lin.ufl.edu/home/colang-2018-workshops/
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ELAN to FLEx
● Two third-party resources at MPI:
○ https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/thirdparty/
○ Including a description of the FLEx-ELAN workflow here:
○ http://langwidj.org/linguistics/elan-flex-workflow/
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Select other “companion” programs for FLEx
● http://software.sil.org/fieldworks/support/companion-tools/
● WeSay (a less technical version of FLEx)● Lexique Pro (Not updated in quite some time http://www.lexiquepro.com/ )
○ Sample outputs for Lexique Pro at http://www.lexiquepro.com/library.htm
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Resources
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SIL videos and tutorials● Tutorials
○ https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/resources/tutorial/
● Videos
○ https://vimeo.com/channels/fieldworks
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CoLang 2020● Take FLEx 1 and 2 next summer at University of Montana
(http://hs.umt.edu/colang/)
● Resources from prior CoLang institutes
● CoLang 2014
○ FLEx 1: http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/courses/coursedetails.php?id=FLEx_1
○ FLEx 2: http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/courses/coursedetails.php?id=FLEx_2
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FLEx resources developed by UT Arlington*● FLEx handout packet, including screenshots
○ http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/training/june2013/AILDI-FLExHandoutPacket.pdf
● Training resources developed for a training for Choctaw Nation’s language teachers:
○ http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/training/aug%202012/
● *Thanks to funding provided by a National Science Foundation Grant, BCS-1065068 “Collaborative Research: Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshop and Documentation Project”