Formswhere
Formswhere is a term used in computational linguistics and lexical databases to describe a framework for organizing inflected word forms and the contexts in which they occur. The idea is to pair each form with metadata about its lemma, part of speech, morphosyntactic features, and the linguistic location—such as dialect, region, or register—where that form is attested. The goal is to enable precise retrieval and disambiguation of forms across languages and domains.
A typical formswhere data model includes Lemma, Form, Features, Locale or Dialect, and Usage or Domain. A
Applications include morphological analysis and generation, dictionary search with locale-aware results, language learning tools, and cross-lingual
Formswhere is often described as a refinement of traditional inflection dictionaries or morphological databases, emphasizing the
See also: lexical database, morphology, inflection, Wiktionary, WordNet, morphological analyzer.