About
Current software version: beta
Who we are and why we built L-Rex
L-Rex is developed by Marta (GitHub profile↗) and Alexej (GitHub profile↗). We have been continuously working on it since February 2019. The idea for L-Rex stems from Marta's work as a linguist with a research focus on acceptability rating experiments. The main motivation is to make setting up this specific kind of experiment quick, easy, and error-proof.
The project is also a great learning experience for us regarding developing and maintaining a free and open-source software project. We hope to provide a useful, accessible and privacy-friendly research tool for everyone working with rating experiments. All functions are available without payment, advertisement or user tracking.
How is the project funded?
We develop L-Rex in our free time and without external funding. This gives us full control of the project and the freedom to focus on aspects important to us.
We are planning to cover the server and maintenance costs via optional support in the form of donations.
Acknowledgments
The L-Rex project has benefited greatly from contributions and feedback by various people:
- We thank David Muigg-Spörr↗ for comprehensive support and advice regarding the design, and for the L-Rex logo.
- We thank Kuba Wierzba↗, Tobias Bengfort↗, and Johannes Dillmann↗ for feedback on technical implementation, design and usability.
- We thank Marta's colleagues Mira Grubic, Henry Fominyam, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, and Radek Šimík for entrusting their research projects to L-Rex at relatively early stages of development, and for giving us valuable feedback and reporting bugs.
- We also thank Radek Šimík for his help in conceptualizing a predecessor of L-Rex.
How to cite L-Rex
If you want to cite L-Rex in a publication, you can use a bibliography entry along the following lines:
Alexej Starschenko and Marta Wierzba (2020). L-Rex: Linguistic rating experiments [software], version beta, GNU General Public License v3.0, https://github.com/2e2a/l-rex/.
If you use Bib(La)TeX, you can use the following entry:
@Misc{,
title = {{L-Rex Linguistic rating experiments [software], version beta}},
author = {Alexej Starschenko and Marta Wierzba},
year = {2020},
note = {{GNU General Public License v3.0}},
url = {https://github.com/2e2a/l-rex/}
}
