

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ALLC and ACH. Our reviews find that TreeForm is a viable alternative to existing tools. We assess how easily linguists learn to use TreeForm through a series of cognitive walkthroughs. We compare the output of TreeForm to those existing tools and show that it is able to better respect the conventions of the domain.


It is a drag-and-drop alternative to LaTeX and labelled bracket notation tools already available, which many linguists find difficult to use. TreeForm assists users in developing syntax trees, complete with movement lines, coreference, and feature association, in order to explore their syntactic theories and explain them to their colleagues. Drawing a syntax tree involves the depiction of a rooted tree with additional syntactic features using specific domain conventions. Linguists studying grammar often describe their models using a syntax tree.
