New Tutorial Videos for TLex, tlTerm, tlCorpus, tlDatabase

We have a brand new YouTube channel with free online tutorial and 'tips and tricks' videos for TLex (TshwaneLex), tlTerm, tlDatabase and tlCorpus!

http://www.youtube.com/user/tshwanedje

Please do subscribe and keep an eye on the channel, as we'll be adding more videos soon. Let us know if there are any particular topics you'd like to see covered.

We also offer Web-based training for all our software, contact us if you are interested.

New Mailing List for TLex Users

There is a new mailing list for TLex (TshwaneLex) users! You can subscribe via the following link:

http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/tshwanelex-l

This mailing list has been created by one of our users, Dr Claire Bowern at Yale University.

tlDatabase 2011 Now Available For Mac!

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Showcase: New Website for the 'Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls'

The new website for the AWS (Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls / Afrikaans Wordlist and Spelling Rules), by Pharos Dictionaries and Die Afrikaanse Taalkommissie (The Afrikaans Language Commission) is now officially live!

We're pleased to have carried out the implementation of this first phase of the website, which uses our advanced Web publishing software. For Pharos, the site complements the over 20 titles already available at Pharos Dictionaries Online, also implemented by TeDJe.

From the announcement of the Taalkommissie (Language Commission): "'n Eerste weergawe van die aanlyn AWS-woordelyste is klaar! Gaan na www.woordelys.co.za om die AWS se woordelys, afkortingslys en lys van buitelandse geografiese name te raadpleeg. Laat weet asseblief wat julle van die webblad dink!"

Watch this space for further interesting projects coming in the near future!

New Mac release for TLex and tlReader

New versions of TLex Suite 2010 and tlReader are now available for the Mac!

New Localization: TLex in Lingála

TLex is now also available in Lingála! Thanks goes to Bienvenu Sene Mongaba for the translation.

This is in addition to other languages such as French, Spanish, Irish and Cilubà. tlReader is also available in other languages such as Polish and Chinese.

Just a reminder that we offer free licenses or upgrades in exchange for translation/localization of any of our software applications. Contact us if you're interested!

Showcase: Oxford Practical Teaching Chemistry Lab Guide CD

Another product developed by us, the CD-ROM for the Oxford Practical Teaching Chemistry Lab Guide. This product, which is one of a series, is aimed at Natural Sciences and Physical Sciences teachers.

tlDatabase 2011 Beta now available

tlDatabase 2011 pre-release is now officially available! tlDatabase brings the power of the TLex editor to other types of data.

We're accepting beta sign-ups here.

We expect similar announcements soon for tlCorpus 2011, tlTerm 2011 and TLex Suite 2011, on which development is already progressing quickly; stay tuned.

Just a reminder also that purchases for tlDatabase and tlCorpus will automatically be upgraded through to versions 2012.

We've also made further improvements to our activation system; activating software should henceforth be much simpler.

Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd

Another new 'Made with TLex' dictionary:

'Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd', Created by Nicoline van der Sijs and her team.

For more examples of dictionaries created with TLex, see our showcase.

TLex Suite 2010, tlTerm 2010 and tlCorpus 2010 Released

Please see our website for more details on information in this news release.

October 14, 2010: TLex Suite 2010, tlTerm 2010 and tlCorpus 2010 Released

The latest version of our widely recognized dictionary and terminology compilation software, TLex Suite 2010, is now available. This is the fifth major release of our software line, and includes TLex (TshwaneLex), tlCorpus 2010 and tlTerm 2010. Our Electronic Publishing (CD-ROM/Web) software has also been updated extensively.
See below for a more detailed summary of new features. tlDatabase 2010 is also now available, which brings the power of the TLex core editor to any type of data.

TLex Suite 2010 includes tlCorpus and tlTerm, or these may be purchased separately. (SPECIAL OFFER: All customers who purchase tlCorpus 2010 (Standalone) will receive a free upgrade to tlCorpus 2011 next year.)

Translation Services

We offer professional translation services for all major world languages, as well as proofreading, editing, transcription and localization. You can use our website form to quickly get quotes.

New Localizations

tlReader is now available in Polish, Chinese (thanks to Bohan for these), French, and Spanish. TLex is also now available in Irish (thanks to Kevin Scannell for this beta localization).

tlTranslate Translation Memory

Coming soon, tlTranslate 2010 Translation Memory Software: We are currently soliciting beta testers, please see our website if you want to sign up. This Computer-Assisted Translation product supports the industry standards TMX and XLIFF.

Other News

New Oxford Zulu - English / English - Zulu Bilingual Dictionary: In partnership with Oxford University Press, we successfully compiled this new fully corpus-driven dictionary (De Schryver, G-M; ISBN 978-0-19-576554-0). The dictionary is already selling well. Naturally, it was created using TLex.

New Electronic Zulu - English Dictionary: This dictionary (which is incidentally unrelated to the Oxford one) includes advanced Zulu compound-word "smart search" technology, and, as with all our electronic dictionaries, also integrates with Microsoft Word. The dictionary is available from our website.

Summary of New Features

New Features Of TLex Include: A specialised new "auto-sound/image linking" tool allows you to rapidly link thousands of sound, image or video files to their corresponding entries all at once, based on configurable naming conventions. Other new features include video file support, a 'show
whitespace' tool, word count tool, shortcut keys for Lua script-based "macros", a 'field mask' that allows you to easily hide selected fields for exporters, new error checks, extensive and detailed new statistics functionality, and new filters. The RTF export includes a new option to split the output into alphabetic sections. Character Info now includes a new
'search by name' field. There are new data manipulation tools such as a 'split field' function that allows you to split attributes at a given text string (e.g. comma) into multiple elements. The integrated Corpus (F6) tool includes many improvements, as well as new features such as a 'wordlist' command and new sorting
options.

Our Electronic Publishing systems have also seen major improvements, and have been used to publish some major CD-ROM and Web dictionaries, including the prestigious new online dictionary website for the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal ('The Dictionary of the Afrikaans Langage'; a large multi-volume
work spanning nearly 200,000 entries and over 8,000 pages in print), and Pharos Dictionaries Online, which consists of some 580,000 entries across 20 titles. These projects also demonstrate that TLex can readily cope with both very large databases, and highly complex data. Amongst the latest new features are advanced multi-title support, search query scoring/ranking, search auto-completion 'suggester', more
advanced user and subscription management and IP-based authentication, and advanced search queries with boolean
expressions, and support for cellphone-based versions.

tlCorpus 2010 is fully internationalized, can intelligently take advantage of modern multi-core computers to get the best possible performance out of them, and is also capable of handling very large files/corpora. It also features functionality for
auto-detection of languages and encodings to help simplify setup. tlCorpus is also BCP-47-aware. It can also intelligently adapt its sentence-detection routines based on the detected language (e.g. supporting Greek end-sentence punctuation rules).

tlTerm 2010 includes support for the latest standards-based BCP 47 language codes, and also includes an importer for TBX (TermBase eXchange format) files.