El proyecto MORFOGENdiseño de una aplicación web para visualizar familias léxicas

Resumen

This paper shows the characteristics of a web application designed to represent the family relationships between components of a word family in Spanish (bdme.usc.es). The application consists of two modules: a) a morphological database of Spanish and b) a visualization tool. Different formulations of the concept of ‘word family’ will be shown, as well as some procedures that have been used in other projects in order to account for morpho-lexical relationships. The convenience of a historical approach to word families will be discussed, as well as the appropriateness of working with two types of family relationships: (i) the one associating a word with its origin and (ii) the one associating the word with its lexical base. Some issues that emerged during the process of conversion from a single-user to a multiple-access database will be discussed. The main features of the database will be explained. The design of two representational forms (tree and linear diagrams) will be shown: the former aims to produce a global representation of a word family while the latter seeks to represent the progression of derivational processes in the series of a given language.