Showcase - Dictionaries Built with TLex

Our TLex dictionary editing software and tlTerm terminology editing software are being used across the world to produce many dictionaries and other reference works; following is a selection of some of these:

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Stellenbosch University Language Centre multilingual terminology website
Client: Stellenbosch University Language Centre

[Launched Nov 2015] Created with tlTerm and TLex Online.

Oxford South African Pocket Dictionary (4th Edition)
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

[New 2015] Created with TLex.

Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary IsiXhosa & English
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

[New 2014] The latest in this award-winning series of ground-breaking South African bilingual dictionaries. Created with Tlex.

Oxford English - Setswana / Setswana - English School Dictionary
Client: Oxford University Press (UK)
Editor: Dr. Thapelo Otlogetswe

[New] Created with TLex.

Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (Dictionary of Galician Language)
Client: Real Academia Galega & Fundación Barrié

Online, Android and iOS

Bilingual Polish and Chinese Dictionary
Client: Created by: Bohan (Poland)

"The biggest and the fastest developing Polish-Chinese and Chinese-Polish Dictionary!" - Dictionary content is being edited using TLex; the website has been created by Bohan.

Thai - Svensk Ordbok (Thai - Swedish Dictionary)
Client: Created by: Fredrik Almstedt (Sweden)

Dictionary content is being edited using TLex, and this electronic dictionary has been created using the TLex Electronic Dictionary platform.

Focal.ie CD-ROM of the National Terminology Database for Irish
Client: Focal.ie

Developed using our Electronic Dictionary Publishing platform; features include:

• Bilingual interface
• Fast, powerful search that can handle inflected forms, spelling errors, and more
• Auto-search from within Microsoft Word
• Easy updates

Oxford South African School Dictionary 3e: CD-ROM
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

TshwaneDJe developed this electronic dictionary CD-ROM for OUP, using the TLex Electronic Dictionary Publishing System. Features include:

• 'AutoFind' while you read or write or documents/emails or browse the Web
• Colour illustrations and videos
• Listen to correct pronunciations to improve your own
• Find the meaning of a word even if you can't spell it
• Activities (exercises, memos and games)

Oxford South African School Dictionary 3e
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

This is the print edition of the abovementioned CD-ROM product (both CD-ROM and hardcopy editions were produced with TLex).

Oxford South African Concise Dictionary 2e
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

Oxford South African Illustrated School Dictionary
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Zulu and English / Isichazamazwi Sesikole Esinezilimi Ezimbili: IsiZulu NesiNgisi, Esishicilelwe abakwa-Oxford
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

[New July 2010!]

Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Northern Sotho and English / Pukuntšu ya Polelopedi ya Sekolo: Sesotho sa Leboa le Seisimane. E gatišitšwe ke Oxford
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

This ground-breaking dictionary, produced entirely in TshwaneLex (TLex), is fully corpus-driven, and includes thousands of real-world usage examples, word frequency ranking markers, detailed part of speech information, usage guidance and more. Page sample 1; Page sample 2.

Oxford Mini Skoolwoordeboek / School Dictionary
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

Oxford Afrikaans-Engels English-Afrikaans Skoolwoordeboek / School Dictionary
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

South African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Sotho)
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

South African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Nguni)
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

Le Robert & Van Dale: dictionnaire français-néerlandais, néerlandais-français (French-Dutch / Dutch-French)
Client: Client: Le Robert / Van Dale

This project made use of the "multiple dictionaries from one database" functionality of TshwaneLex (TLex) to create and extract both a desktop and pocket edition simultaneously (pocket edition is next item below).

Le Robert & Van Dale: dictionnaire français-néerlandais, néerlandais-français (poche) (French-Dutch / Dutch-French)
Client: Client: Le Robert / Van Dale

This project made use of the "multiple dictionaries from one database" functionality of TshwaneLex (TLex) to create and extract both a desktop and pocket edition simultaneously (desktop edition is the item above).

Longman HAT English - Afrikaans / Afrikaans - Engels School Dictionary / Skoolwoordeboek [Pearson]
Client: Pearson Education (South Africa)

This project made use of a number of advanced TLex features to streamline production, including advanced custom scripting-based lemma reversal, as well as "multiple dictionaries from one database".

Longman HAT English - Afrikaans / Afrikaans - Engels Pocket Dictionary / Sakwoordeboek [Pearson]
Client: Pearson Education (South Africa)

This project made use of a number of advanced TLex features to streamline production, including advanced custom scripting-based lemma reversal, as well as "multiple dictionaries from one database".

Bagrut Lexicon: EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Learner's Dictionary
Client: GT-Lex (Israel)

Bagrut Lexicon is a 2,000 word EFL learner’s dictionary in which the entries are linked to sets of practice exercises on each pair of adjacent pages, making the dictionary well-suited for teaching English. The words have been selected from a corpus of matriculation-level comprehension texts. It can be ordered online at ofarimbooks.co.il.

Diccionario integral del español de la Argentina
Client: Tinta Fresca, Grupo Clarín (Argentina)

This dictionary, produced by a large team all using TshwaneLex, contains over 40,000 entries, 80,000 meanings, over 90,000 usage examples, and many other useful features. The website contains more information and a smart preview.
Click here for more details on the production of this dictionary using TLex » (Spanish)

Nkòngamyakù Cilubà – Mfwàlànsa (Cilubà - French)
Client: Recall-Ciyèm (Belgium)

Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd
Client: Nicoline van der Sijs

Klein Uitleenwoordenboek
Client: Nicoline van der Sijs

Verklarende Afrikaanse Woordeboek (Afrikaans Explanatory Dictionary)
Client: Pharos, nb Publishers (South Africa)

(FJ Labuschagne, L.C. Eksteen)

Beknopte Verklarende Woordeboek (Afrikaans Concise Explanatory Dictionary)
Client: Pharos, nb Publishers (South Africa)

Repertorio de siglas, acrónimos, abreviaturas y símbolos utilizados en los textos médicos en español / Glossary of abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols used in Spanish medical texts
Client: Real Academia Nacional de Medicina / Royal National Academy of Medicine (Spain)

[Online]

Lexique yoómbe-français avec index français-yoómbe (Yoómbe - French)
Client: Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)

By: Jan de Grauwe; Ed.: K. Bostoen
Collection: Tervuren Series for African Language Documentation and Description

Pukuntšutlhaloši ya Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho Explanatory Dictionary)
Client: Northern Sotho National Lexicography Unit (South Africa)

Kalenjin Dictionary / Samburtaab Ng’aleekaab Kaleenchin
Client: Kibny’aanko Seroney / MvuleAfrica Publishers (Kenya)

Kalenjin Dictionary / Samburtaab Ng’aleekaab Kaleenchin (Online)
Client: Kibny’aanko Seroney

Published by TshwaneDJe

English - Croatian Maritime Dictionary
Client: Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

[Online]

An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
Client: James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) (USA)

[Online]

Zulu - English / English - Zulu online dictionary & isiZulu.net Zulu - English / English - Zulu electronic dictionary
Client: isiZulu.net (Germany)

[Online + Electronic]

WAT Aanlyn (Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal / 'The Dictionary of the Afrikaans Language')
Client: WAT (South Africa)

[Online]

Pharos Dictionaries Online / Pharos Woordeboeke Aanlyn
Client: Pharos (South Africa)

[Online]

Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS) Aanlyn / 'Afrikaans Wordlist and Spelling Rules - Online'
Client: Pharos and 'Die Taalkommissie' (Language Commission) (South Africa)

[Online]

Electronic Lusoga Dictionary / e-Eiwanika ly'Olusoga
Client: Menha Publishers (Uganda / Belgium)

[Electronic]

Online Lusoga Dictionary / e-Eiwanika ly'Olusoga
Client: Menha Publishers (Uganda / Belgium)

[Online]

Online Explanatory Northern Sotho Dictionary (Pukuntšutlhaloši ya Sesotho sa Leboa ka Inthanete)
Client: Northern Sotho National Lexicography Unit / PanSALB (South Africa)

[Online]

TshwaneDJe HLT is also in the process of producing various online, electronic (CD-ROM) and hardcopy dictionaries. Some of those that have been released so far include:

• Swahili - English Dictionary Online and Electronic
  Kamusi ya Kiswahili - Kiingereza Online and Electronic
  • Sheng - English Lexicon [Online]
    Msamiati wa Sheng - Kiingereza [Online]

• Northern Sotho - English Dictionary [Online]
  Pukuntšu ya Sesotho sa Leboa - Seisimane [Online]
  • Linguistics Terminology Northern Sotho - English [Online]
    Mareo a Popopolelo ya Sesotho sa Leboa - Seisimane [Online]

  • Birds and Trees List English - Northern Sotho [Online]
    Lenaneo la Dinonyana le Mehlare: Seisimane - Sesotho sa Leboa [Online]

All these reference works are produced with the dictionary compilation software TshwaneLex, and are compiled within the theoretical framework of Simultaneous Feedback (SF) and/or Fuzzy SF (for more on this approach, click here).

Other Work

New Longman-HAT website

Oxford Practical Teaching Chemistry Lab Guide CD
Client: Oxford University Press (Southern Africa)

The CD-ROM software for this Oxford Practical Teaching Chemistry Lab Guide was developed by us. This product, which forms part of a series, is aimed at Natural Sciences and Physical Sciences teachers.