Word Grammar Network (WGNet)

Software for an inflectional network; next version: WGNET++

last updated 12 Dec 2003

Ref: R 000 22 3659
Institution: University College London
Department: Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
Grant holder: Richard Hudson
Principal researcher: Sean Wallis
Period: October 2001 to July 2002

Aims and objectives

The project will produce a software package which will allow a user to interact with a database of information about English inflectional morphology. The user will be able to add new facts about morphological patterns, inflectional categories, lexemes and lexical relations, and to test the database's ability to analyse or produce new forms.

The theoretical framework will be Word Grammar, in which the theory of inflectional morphology is already sufficiently well formalised for this project. The software will be designed in such a way that it can also be applied (in future work) to other areas of language, including syntax, and will include a simple model of spreading activation which can be expanded in future work.

Full grant proposal (PDF)

Full final report

Downloadable software for WGNet (beta)

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