Word analysis tools

LinguaLinks includes the following tools to do word analysis.

The Interlinear Text editor helps you create text segments comprised of wordform-in context objects. When you complete the analysis process for a particular wordform-in-context, it displays the corresponding word and morpheme analyses in aligned interlinear format.

The Wordform Inventory editor

• displays a list of the wordforms and the number of their occurrences in a user-defined text corpus
• displays a concordance of all occurrences of any wordform selected in the wordform list, and
• assigns each occurrence of a wordform to its appropriate analysis.

The Analysis editor lets you categorize and gloss a word and its component morphemes for display in the interlinear text and lexical database.

Morphemes analyzed in the Analysis editor are automatically inserted as entries in the lexical database. If you analyze a morpheme that is already in the lexicon, the Lexical Database editor automatically provides sense information to the Analysis editor for your evaluation.

The Morphology Explorer helps you discover morphemes in your data on the basis of similarity in form or meaning and review other data correlations in the wordform list, your texts, and the lexical database.

Lexical database tools

The lexical database tools in LinguaLinks are based on generally accepted models for lexicography and semantics.

They permit you to do the following:

• Multiple writing systems for your data
• Multilingual glosses
• Tools to index and cross-reference lexical entries by
  • lexical relation sets
  • thesaurus categories, and
  • Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) categories
• Tools to view and edit entries and senses linked to a particular category
• Tools to compare related senses of different entries
• Filters to restrict the displayed entries to those that match criteria you specify

Also, you may easily:

• Customize the data entry view for the lexical database
• Customize formatted views to display and print both full and limited dictionaries
• Output data marked with standard format codes to use with typesetting programs and other applications

Your lexical analysis is assisted by:

• Automatic updates of all linked database objects when you make changes in entries
• Links with text data that provide automatic display of context for
  • lexical analysis, and
  • example sentence selection
• Detailed online help for using the lexical tools

The lexical database tools help you manage the thousands of pieces of information you collect about the language.

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