Language Development
OralWritten
FieldWorks
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Free (Unrestricted)
LGPL
Developer NeededLinguistic ExpertiseOffline Usage
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The Parser and Writer for Syntax (PAWS) has two purposes. The Writer produces about a 100 page long rough draft of a grammar of the syntax of your language, based on the answers to the questions in each section of PAWS. The Parser produces all the files needed for using the PC-PATR syntactic parser for parsing and disambiguation within FieldWorks Language Explorer or CARLA Studio. For both the Writer and the Parser, we expect PAWS to cover about 80% of what a language needs.
The Writer tool produces a draft of the grammar. The Parser can be used to Parse words within FLEx.
PAWS is expected to cover about 80% of what a language grammar needs.
Runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
"Since technical writing is by far the hardest skill to master in linguistic research, ... [the authors of PAWS] have done us the favor of putting most of their knowledge of what languages are like into a computer program that guides the user through a discovery process step by step."
Tom Willett, SIL
