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Index of SIL publications on Computer programs listed by country.

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General works

• Albright, Eric and John Hatton. 2008. "WeSay, a tool for engaging native speakers in dictionary building."  
• Albright, Eric S. 2000. Design of an electronic method for describing writing systems.  
• Albright, Eric Scott. 2001. Design of an electronic method for describing writing systems.
• Antworth, Evan L. 1993. "Glossing text with the PC-KIMMO morphological parser."
• Arensen, Jonathan E. 1995. "CARLA for only one language."
• Author unknown. 1996. LinguaLinks version 1.0: overview and installation guide.
• Barnwell, Katharine. 1995. "A translation consultant’s perspective on CARLA."
• Barnwell, Katharine. 1996. "What CARLA consultants need to know about the translation process."
• Beale, Stephen. 1997. Hunter-gatherer: applying constraint satisfaction, branch-and-bound and solution synthesis to computational semantics.
• Bergman, William. 1996. "An implementation of transfer based on tree editing."
• Bevan, David. 1993. "Syntactic analysis using Shoebox."
• Bickford, J. Albert. 1996. "Grammatical concepts taught in current SIL prefield training."
• Bird, Steven and Gary Simons. 2003. "Extending Dublin Core metadata to support the description and discovery of language resources."  
• Bird, Steven and Gary Simons. 2003. "Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description."  
• Bird, Steven and Gary Simons. 2004. "Building an open language archives community on the DC foundation."  
• Black, Cheryl A. 1996. "A PC-PATR implementation of GB syntax."
• Black, Cheryl A. and H. Andrew Black. 2009. "PAWS: Parser and writer for syntax: drafting syntactic grammars in the third wave."  
• Black, H. Andrew and Cheryl A. Black. 2003. "A conceptual introduction to morphological parsing using AMPLE."
• Black, H. Andrew and Gary F. Simons. 2006. The SIL FieldWorks language explorer approach to morphological parsing.  
• Black, H. Andrew, editor, and others. 1996. Proceedings of the 1996 general CARLA conference, November 14-15, 1996.
• Black, H. Andrew, Gary F. Simons and William C. Mann. 1996. "Overview of a design for the next generations of CARLA tools."
• Black, H. Andrew. 1996. "‘Son of Ample, PhonRule, and Stamp’: Towards a re-implementation/re-conception of AMPLE, PHONRULE, and STAMP."
• Black, H. Andrew. 1996. "TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology."
• Bruce, Leslie P. and Peter Wang. 1994. "Lexical analysis, semantic sets and computer automated semantic classification."
• Buseman, Alan and Karen Buseman. 1996. "Shoebox 3 and CARLA."
• Buseman, Alan and others. 2000. The linguist’s shoebox: tutorial and user’s guide: integrated data management and analysis for the field linguist.
• Buseman, Alan. 1991. Tutorial for dialect adaptation with Ample and Stamp: Computer Assisted Dialect adaptation using the Ample and Stamp programs.
• Constable, Peter and Gary F. Simons. 2002. "An analysis of ISO 639: preparing the way for advancements in language identification standards."  
• Constable, Peter and Gary Simons. 2000. "Language identification and IT: addressing problems of linguistic diversity on a global scale."  
• Constable, Peter G. 2002. "Toward a model for language identification: defining an ontology of language-related categories."  
• Constable, Peter. 2001. "Appendix A; Mapping codepoints to Unicode encoding forms."  
• Constable, Peter. 2001. "Appendix B: A review of characters with compatibility decompositions."  
• Constable, Peter. 2001. "Character set encoding basics: understanding character encodings and legacy encodings."  
• Constable, Peter. 2001. "Understanding Unicode™: a general introduction to the Unicode standard."  
• Constable, Peter. 2001. "Understanding characters, keystrokes, codepoints and glyphs: encoding and working with multilingual text."  
• Constable, Peter. 2001. "Working with language identifiers."
• Coward, David F. and Charles E. Grimes. 1995. Making dictionaries: a guide to lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter (Version 1.0).
• Coward, David F. and Charles E. Grimes. 2003. "Making dictionaries: a guide to lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter."
• Coward, David F. and Mark Pedrotti. 2003. "Using MDF in Shoebox: a supplement to "Making dictionaries: a guide to lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter"."
• Coward, David F., Barbara Moore and John S. Wimbish. 2003. "Application guide to Shoebox: anthropology."
• Coward, David, Barbara Moore and John Wimbish. 2000. The linguist’s shoebox: application guide for anthropology: integrated data management and analysis tool for the field linguist.
• Crickmore, Scott M. 1996. "Strategies for implementing a CARLA project that consists of teams that are international and inter-mission."
• Daley, Stephen C. 1995. "Seven software packages for Bible research."
• Dinh Dien. 2005. "Building an annotated English-Vietnamese parallel corpus."  
• Erickson, Timm. 1995. "A CARLA success story."
• Fultz, Jim. 1995. "Since CARLA joined our team."
• Gaultney, Victor, Martin Hosken and Alan Ward. 2001. "An introduction to TrueType fonts: a look inside the TTF format."  
• Glover, Warren W. 1995. "Using CARLA in Gurung, a Tibeto-Burman language."
• Grimes, Charles E. 2006. "One dictionary, one language, one team, but different locations? Version control and file management turn chaos into quality."  
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1983. "How a linguist might use an integrated data base."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1983. Affix positions and cooccurrences: The PARADIGM program.  
• Grimes, Joseph E., Linda Simons and Ramond Howell. 1978. Research workshop on microcomputer design for field linguistics.
• Gunn, Judy. 1988. "Some comments on FIESTA (Fast Interactive Editor of Scripture and Text Analysis)."
• Hosken, Martin and Melinda Lyons. 2003. Crossing the digital divide: computer resources to aid minorities.  
• Hosken, Martin. 2001. "An introduction to keyboard design theory: what goes where?."  
• Hosken, Martin. 2001. "An introduction to smart font rendering: glyph tracing for beginners."
• Hunt, Geoffrey. 1994. "Recent developments in CECIL."
• Hunt, Geoffrey. 1995. "Learning or revising Greek vocabulary."
• Hunt, Geoffrey. 2007. "Watch out! Unicode is coming."  
• Hunt, Geoffrey. 2008. "A comparison of phonology tools."  
• Kew, Jonathan. 1992. "A computerized assistant for translators."
• Landin, Rachel and David J. Landin. 1994. Review of: Family ties—genealogy program, by E. Neil Wagstaff.
• Leaders, Marlin. 2003. "LinguaLinks linguistics workshop quick reference guide."
• Lyons, Melinda and Victor Gaultney. 2001. "The NRSI model for implementing writing systems: an introduction."  
• Mann, William C. 1993. "Choosing source texts for CADA projects."
• Mann, William C. 1995. "Leave a second treasure."
• Mann, William C. 1995. "Models of CARLA use in Africa."
• Mann, William C. 1996. "Programmed expertise and support for CARLA activity."
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1999. "A new program for doing morphology: Hermit crab."
• Maxwell, Michael. 2003. "Hermit Crab: parsing and generating with classical generative phonology and morphology."
• Maxwell, Mike, Gary Simons and Larry Hayashi. 2002. "A morphological glossing assistant."  
• McConnel, Stephen R. 1996. "KTEXT and PC-PATR: Unification based tools for computer aided adaptation."
• McConnel, Stephen R. 2003. "AMPLE reference manual."
• Mead, David. 2007. "Off the cassette tape and onto CD: migrating analog audio data to digital format."  
• Millar, J. B. and W. W. Glover. 1981. "Synthesis of the Devanagari orthography."
• Moe, Ronald. 2007. "Dictionary Development Program."  
• Moe, Ronald. 2008. "FieldWorks Language Explorer 1.0."  
• Pickett, Velma B. 1993. "Shoeboxes and typewriters or computers?."
• Prettol, Kenneth A. 1998. "A model for a decision-support tool for making language project assignments."
• Quick, Phil. 2008. "Annotating texts for language documentation with Discourse Profiler's metatagging system."  
• Quick, Philip A. 1996. "Multilinear discourse analysis software demonstration."
• Rettig, Marc, Gary Simons and John Thomson. 1993. "Extended objects."  
• Robinson, Stuart, Greg Aumann and Steven Bird. 2007. "Managing fieldwork data with Toolbox and the Natural Language Toolkit."  
• Silzer, Peter J. 1998. "LinguaLinks: a powerful computer environment for translation."
• Simons, Gary and Steven Bird. 2003. "The open language archives community: an infrastructure for distributed archiving of language resources."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1996. "PTEXT: a format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing applications."
• Simons, Gary F. 1997. "Using architectural forms to map SGML data into an object-oriented database."
• Simons, Gary F. 1998. "In search of task-centered software: Building single-purpose tools from multipurpose components."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1998. "Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1999. "Using architectural forms to map TEI data into an object-oriented database."
• Simons, Gary F. 2000. "CELLAR: a data modeling system for linguistic annotation."  
• Simons, Gary F. 2006. "Ensuring that digital data last: the priority of archival form over working form and presentation form."  
• Stanford, Ronald and John Watters. 1993. "The role of CADA in translation programs in the Africa Area."
• Thomas, David and Gunnar Dalseth. 1987. "Phonetics used with WordStar via FXDRVR."
• Thomson, Gregory. 1993. "A computer-based organizational system for Bible translators should do three things."
• Trick, Douglas. 1997. Review of: Electronic performance support systems: How and why to remake the workplace through the strategic application of technology, by Gloria J. Gery.
• Tuggy, John C. 1996. "Checking CARLA produced translations."
• Valerius, Lee. 1988. "The FIESTA and GRAMCORD programs: Two ways to make concordances based on grammatical information."
• van den Berg, René and Susan Shore. 2006. "A new mass elicitation technique: the dictionary development program."  
• Weber, David J., H. Andrew Black and Stephen R. McConnel. 2003. "AMPLE: a tool for exploring morphology."
• Weber, David J., H. Andrew Black, and Stephen R. McConnel. 1988. AMPLE: a tool for exploring morphology.
• Weber, David J., Stephen R. McConnel, Diana D. Weber, and Beth J. Bryson. 1994. PRIMER: a tool for developing early reading materials.
• Weber, David. 2008. Review of: Coherence in natural language: data structures and applications, by Florian Wolf and Edward Gibson.  
• Woodward, G. Tomas. 2000. "Why use the OCM in fieldwork?."
• Woodward, G. Tomas. 2008. "FieldWorks data notebook: software for writing digital fieldnotes."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ghana

• Koehler, Beth. 1999. "Carla eases defensiveness in the translator team."

Mozambique

• Leach, Benjie. 1999. "Data management: coping with unpredictability in word sense."

Sudan

• Parker, Kirk H. and Gary F. Simons. 1988. A common subroutine library for RAP programmers.

Americas

Canada

• Jancewicz, Bill and Marguerite MacKenzie. 2002. "Applied computer technology in Cree and Naskapi language programs."  

Mexico

• Regnier, Randy. 1996. "Isthmus Zapotec to Quiegolani Zapotec: a New Testament computer adaptation project, and an AMPLE source disambiguation tool needed to do the adaptation."

Peru

• Harmelink, Bryan L. 1985. EZTEXT: Integrated tools for text analysis.
• Weber, David J. 1982. "Software tools and PTP."
• Weber, David J. 1996. "Tightening the linguistic belt: Some comments on using AMPLE for linguistic discovery and spelling control."

Asia

Indonesia

• Laskowske, Tom. 2004. UniSpell and lexical databases.  
• Matti, David F. 1996. "The use of CARLA in South Sulawesi."
• Travis, Edgar W. 1986. Penyelidikan persamaan bahasa dengan menggunakan mikrokomputer.
• Wimbish, John S. 1989. WORDSURV: a program for analyzing language survey word lists.

Nepal

• Caughley, Ross C. 1998. "Considerations in the making of a Chepang-Nepali-English dictionary."
• Hale, E. Austin. 2002. "Optimizing the Shoebox parser for Newari."
• Smith, Steve. 1998. "The use of computers in dictionary making."

Philippines

• McFarland, Curtis D. 2006. "A CAI program for teaching Filipino."  
• Newell, Leonard. 1995. "Computer processing of texts for lexical analysis."

Thailand

• Beale, Stephen. 1991. "Machine translation in South-East Asian minority languages."
• Hosken, Martin. 2002. "Rendering Thai as an example of using Graphite for Generalised Smart Font Rendering."