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XML Design Document and Data Model
For the Westminster Hebrew Morphology
Introduction
Morph was originally designed in the mid-1980s, using well-known techniques for databases. After nearly 20 years, both database technology and design "best practices" have changed extensively. XML, as a hierarchical data structure, is well suited for linguistic analysis which is also very hierarchical. Morph, with its ISAM-like variable-length fields, is simply becoming too cumbersome to maintain. It does not handle ambiguity at all; one is forced to decide what the parsing is. One morpheme cannot be related to another morpheme, annotations are impossible, and the list goes on and on. XML was designed with these requirements (among many others) in mind.
This document records the ongoing discussion here at the Institute about how to implement a new database structure in XML in preparation for extending the database from morphology into syntax.
Roadmap
To see our project plan and see our progress in summary fashion, take a look at our roadmap
Hebrew Morphology
Click XML Hebrew Morphology to see the progress on the schema for Morph.
Hebrew Syntax
Click XML Hebrew Syntax to follow Kirk and Andi Wu's "hackathon" (February 26 - March 2nd) on creating an XML schema for Hebrew Syntax!
Click on WikiInfo for help in using this wiki.
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