Some linguists have solved the problem of representing linguistic data by building special-purpose linguistic database programs.
Relational databases are the most popular kind of database in use today.
In spite of their popularity, they are found wanting for handling linguistic data. Provides postscript versions of many publications. An important notion from relational database theory is normalization . This is the process of organizing a database in such a way that no piece of information occurs more than once in the database. They have the advantage of inherently supporting all of requirements 2 through 5 .