Wordless is an integrated corpus tool with multilingual support for the study of language, literature, and translation designed and developed by Ye Lei (叶磊), then MA student in interpreting studies at Shanghai International Studies University (上海外国语大学).
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The latest version (3.2.0) of Wordless supports Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11, macOS 10.11 or later, and Ubuntu 16.04 or later, all 64-bit only. Both Intel-based and M1-based Macs are supported.
For a detailed changelog, please see CHANGELOG.md.
| Release | Remarks |
|---|---|
| Latest Release for Windows | 1. Extract all files 2. Double-click Wordless/Wordless.exe to run |
| Latest Release for macOS | 1. Extract all files 2. Double-click Wordless.app to run |
| Latest Release for Linux | 1. Extract all files 2. Double-click Wordless/Wordless to run 3. [Optional] Double-click Wordless/Wordless - Create Shortucut to create a shortcut in Show Applications |
| Past Releases | Not recommended |
| Baidu Netdisk | For Chinese users with unstable connections to Github (PASSWORD: wdls) |
Note 1: It is recommended that the path to Wordless not contain any non-ASCII chatacters, such as Chinese characters and letters with diacritics.
Note 2: If your Mac says that “Wordless” is damaged and can’t be opened, please open Terminal (Launchpad → Other) and run:
xattr -rc /Applications/Wordless.app
remember to replace /Applications/Wordless.app with the actual path of Wordless on your computer (you could drag Wordless.app to the Terminal). Then, run Wordless again (the warning prompted in Terminal could be ignored if the program could be successfully opened).
Note 3: If the Linux version won't open after double-clicking, please try executing the program with the sudo command in terminal. If the program is still not running, please contact the author for support.
Need Help?
If you have any questions, find software bugs, need to provide feedback, or want to submit feature requests, you may seek support from the open-source community or contact me directly via any of the support channels listed below.
| Support Channel | Information |
|---|---|
| Official documentation | Documentation |
| Tutorial videos | bilibili |
| Bug reports | Github Issues |
| Usage questions | Github Discussions |
| Email support | blkserene@gmail.com |
| WeChat official account |  |
Citing
If you publish work that uses Wordless, please cite as follows.
APA (7th edition):
Ye, L. (2023). Wordless (Version 3.2.0) [Computer software]. Github. https://github.com/BLKSerene/WordlessMLA (8th edition):
Ye Lei. Wordless, version 3.2.0, 2023. Github, https://github.com/BLKSerene/Wordless.License
Copyright (C) 2018-2023 Ye Lei (叶磊)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Contributing
For more details, please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md.
Donating
If you would like to support the development of Wordless, you may donate via PayPal, Alipay, or WeChat Pay.
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Acknowledgments
For more details, please refer to ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md.