GiellaLT provides an infrastructure for rule-based language technology aimed at minority and indigenous languages, and streamlines building anything from keyboards to speech technology. Read more about Why. See also How to get started, and our Privacy document.
In order to make programs for lingustic analysis, you need unix. If all
you want to do is edit the files, and not use them, you may work on
your local machine.
If you don’t have Linux yourself, you may use a linux server somewhere else, and log onto it from your own Windows machine. In order to do that, you need an account on a linux machine. Getting one is not too difficult:
You then need a program to log onto the linux machine. We recommend PuTTY. You have to learn how to work on a Linux machine. We have some documentation on unix, and as always, the net is your friend. Your local IT experts may help with setup and unix commands.
The main difference between working locally and working via PuTTY is that you will have no graphical tools, but must use editors such as [emacs|docu-emacs.html] or nano.
You will need TortoiseSVN to access the files.
You will need a text editor (not a word processor like OpenOffice or MS Word) to edit the files. We recommend EditPadLite.