Computational tools for Language Documentation

As a linguistic fieldworker, the lack of technologically advanced language documentation tools is quite apparent to me. I am working to fill this gap by creating online database structures useful for my own work, but also available to other linguists. For example, I co-developed an application with a software engineer, a novel online, searchable, data-entry site called TwistedTongues, which I use to maintain the Guébie (Kru) corpus, and as a database tool in Field Methods courses. TwistedTongues is available for use to anyone, and a manual is available here. I have also co-created readable, searchable, publicly available text corpora for understudied languages, used by community members and linguists alike. These include the Moro story corpus (Moro, Kordofanian), and the Guébie story corpus (Guébie, Kru). The code for both sites is available on Github.