Software Details

Title:	Alchemist 2.0 software now available
Submitter:	John Goldsmith
Description:	Alchemist version 2.0.5 is now available from the Linguistica project: http://linguistica.uchicago.edu/alchemist.html Alchemist is a free, open source project designed to help linguists work with lexicon-based projects. It was originally conceived to allow users to easily and rapidly create an XML file with information about the morphological structure of words in large lexicons. Users can easily select subgroups of the lexicon in a wide range of ways, including the use of regular expressions. Alchemist can be used to easily find subparts of a lexicon satisfying conditions that a linguist may be interested in exploring. A very user-friendly guide is available in Acrobat format at: http://linguistica.uchicago.edu/alchemistv2_0_final.pdf Alchemist has been designed to allow rapid creation of databases in which prefixes, roots, suffixes, and compounds are identified, with or without additional morphological or morphosyntactic information. Alchemist is a Unicode-enabled GUI-based program that runs under Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It is written in Trolltech's QT, based on gcc. For more information on the Linguistica project, see: http://linguistica.uchicago.edu/
Linguistic Field(s):	Morphology Lexicography
LL Issue:	16.3244
Date Posted:	10-Nov-2005