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Two very useful ways for modifying a form-dictionary are the addition to the dictionary of complete paradigms rather than single forms and the application of a single change to more than one dictionary form.

The former is intended to decrease the amount of work necessary to extend dictionary coverage.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

An extension of the principle would permit entering a grammatical description of each form.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

Thus, one can think of a dictionary entry as a word rather than a form.