= FieldWorks Language Explorer
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<FieldWorks Language Explorer> is software for building lexical resources and analyzing language data. It combines a <lexical database> with text analysis, allowing forms in a <text corpus> to be connected to entries and proposed analyses into <morphemes>. Its official documentation describes both manual and automatic word parsing and the production of dictionary and grammatical resources.<FieldWorks Language Explorer documentation>[official project description, Analyze Texts and Describe Grammar]{ref}
For an illustrative workflow, a recorded occurrence of `walked` can be associated with a `WALK` <lexeme>, a segmentation into `walk` and `-ed`, and a past <grammatical tense> analysis. An <interlinear gloss> can display these aligned layers while preserving the original form. A later occurrence supplies a chance to test the analysis rather than merely reproduce a translation. Alternative segmentations and meanings must still be evaluated from evidence. <FieldWorks Language Explorer> organizes the data and proposed relationships; using the software does not itself establish that an analysis of <linguistic morphology> is correct.
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